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2024-01-25 -Land of the Free
Texas escalates feud with federal government, telling ranchers SCOTUS ruling on razor wire not final, offering to give ranchers razor wire as migrants are now sneaking into US through private property
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
  • Texas Border Czar Mike Banks told ranchers Wednesday the state could install razor wire on their private property free of charge

  • The state is countering a controversial SCOTUS ruling allowing agents to cut through razor wire to allow migrants into the US

  • The barrier has been put in place by order of Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, a frequent critic of Biden's border policies


Greg Abbott declares Texas' right to self-defense ‘supersedes federal statutes' as he battles Biden admin over razor wire at border

[NYPost] Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday proclaimed that the Lone Star State’s right to self-defense “supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary” amid a feud with the Biden administration over border security.

Abbott’s statement of defiance comes on the heels of a standoff over razor wire the state has laid across the US-Mexico border despite a US Supreme Court ruling permitting the federal government to snip that barrier.

“Visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that states should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border,” Abbott said.

The Lone Star State Republican argued that because the federal government has failed to safeguard Texas from an invasion, the state has the “constitutional authority to defend” itself.

“That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary,” Abbott stressed.

On Monday, the Supreme Court determined in a 5-4 ruling that federal agents can remove the sharp concertina placed at sections of the border.

President Biden’s administration argued this authority was necessary so border officials responding to medical and other emergencies at the border aren’t impeded by the fencing.

Texas laid down the wire in a bid to dissuade migrants from traversing high-trafficked sites. Last year, the Lone Star State sued the Biden administration to stop the wire-cutting.

Despite the ruling, Abbott pledged that the state will “continue to deploy this razor wire to repel illegal immigration.”

The razor wire feud went unmentioned in his missive about Texas’ right to self-defense. However, he alleged that Biden “has refused to enforce those [immigration] laws and has even violated them.”

“More than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our southern border in just 3 years. That is more than the population of 33 different States in this country,” Abbott bemoaned.

During fiscal year 2023, a record-breaking 2,475,669 million migrant encounters were recorded at the southern border, according to the US Customs and Border Control.

Preliminary data indicates over 300,000 migrant encounters were recorded last December.

Abbott has been testing the limits of state power to combat the simmering border crisis. Under Operation Lone Star, his administration claims to have shipped over 100,000 migrants to blue cities and conducted over 496,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions.

The governor has quarreled with the Biden administration over immigration policy repeatedly. Earlier this month, the administration threatened to sue Texas if the state detains illegal immigrants via state law.

Texas has a law on the books to that effect set to take effect in March.

The Justice Department has sued Texas over its use of a floating barrier in the Rio Grande. Texas recently scored a victory from an appeals court over that matter.

Earlier this month, Texas authorities cordoned off a park in Eagle Pass to impede migrants and even unauthorized Border Patrol agents from entering.

The Post contacted the White House and Department of Homeland Security for comment.

Courtesy of Besoeker:
TX Gov Releases Statement: 'I have declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself'

[Treehouse] Governor Greg Abbott today issued a statement on Texas’ constitutional right to defend and protect itself as President Joe Biden continues to attack Texas and refuse to perform his duties to secure the border.

"The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," reads the statement. "President Biden has instructed his agencies to ignore federal statutes that mandate the detention of illegal immigrants. The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, § 4 has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas’s constitutional authority to defend and protect itself. That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary." [Full statement pdf HERE]
The noxious human discharge may soon be hitting the oscillating wind machine.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top
 File under: Migrants/Illegal Immigrants 

#1 the state could install razor wire on their private property free of charge

I could use some new fence.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 04:12||   2024-01-25 04:12|| Front Page Top

#2 BORDER SHOWDOWN: DHS Sends 2nd Demand Notice to Texas over Seized Park Access
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 06:12||   2024-01-25 06:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I could be wrong, but something tells me Texas will not back down from this one.

Biden's handlers not forceful enough? Globalist Replacement People programme in danger? Is this why Soetoro is suddenly turning on Biden ?

I'm very curious as to what Gov. Abbott's 'Plan B' may entail.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-25 06:22||   2024-01-25 06:22|| Front Page Top

#4 On the other hand, the SC could order Biden to enforce current immigration laws….
Posted by Itsoktobewhite 2024-01-25 06:25||   2024-01-25 06:25|| Front Page Top

#5 The Supreme Court didn't forbid Texas to install razor wire, it just gave federal agents the authority to cut it down if it impedes their work.

Btw I'm not sure about this: Does private property stretch right to the border? Do federal agents have the right to enter private land right at the border? (I'd be surprised if they didn't).
Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 07:15||   2024-01-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#6 #4 Yeah, that worked well when they decided the student loan forgiveness was unlawful. Hell, he's pretty much bragging about doing it anyway.
Posted by Chris 2024-01-25 08:22||   2024-01-25 08:22|| Front Page Top

#7 ^^ #5 Easements.
Feds and local governments have easements.
Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-01-25 08:24||   2024-01-25 08:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Easements.... but can they cut down razor wire on private property?
Posted by European Conservative 2024-01-25 09:05||   2024-01-25 09:05|| Front Page Top

#9 Razor wire all along private property lines. Turn easements into "no man's land" then see how Obama responds.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2024-01-25 09:09||   2024-01-25 09:09|| Front Page Top

#10 ...If you think about it for a second...the smartest thing Biden and/or his handlers could do is just keep arguing with TX but not actually do anything.

The state is making huge and (somewhat) effective efforts to stop the flow. The Feds can doubletalk it while TX takes all the heat.

Mike
Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-01-25 10:12||   2024-01-25 10:12|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ Hadn't given that one any thought Mike. Very interesting theory.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-01-25 10:38||   2024-01-25 10:38|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm very curious as to what Gov. Abbott's 'Plan B' may entail.

Border to border 'stop-n-frisk', 'show me your papers' kind of thing I'm afraid if they can't stop the mass invasion.
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-25 12:07||   2024-01-25 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 Sanctuary City mayors are already blaming Abbott for the influx of illegals. As if their constituents are too stupid to know it's Biden.
Posted by Cleared Cookies Lost Nic 2024-01-25 13:48||   2024-01-25 13:48|| Front Page Top

#14 When we built the preliminary section of the California border wall in 1992-94 I spent some time with the USBP Sector Staff and our Team Engineer leadership literally on the US-Mexico Border. I learned that the Border Patrol and Customs Service had unrestricted access to an easement 60 feet wide along the entire border(Roosevelt easement cite from Wiki below). Texas was NOT included in that easement "...Texas retained all public lands upon the Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties."

The interesting discussion of the USSC ruling is that it did not require Texas to remove anything, but rather granted the USBP authority to remove obstacles to their access for law enforcement.

By invoking " Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense." it appears Texas countered by insisting it had self-defense rights defined in the US Constitution, and the State Constitution, thus forcing the issue back to the USSC it would seem.

Wiki Cite Verbatim: "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Roosevelt Reservation is the 60-foot (18 m)-wide strip of land owned by the United States Federal Government along the United States side of the United States–Mexico Border in three of the four border states. Federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles (1,017 km), or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 miles (3,200 km) total. Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.[1]

In 1907, Theodore Roosevelt in a Presidential Proclamation (35 Stat. 2136) established the reservation in order to keep all public lands along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico "free from obstruction as a protection against the smuggling of goods between the United States and Mexico".[2][3][4] Texas was excluded because Texas retained all public lands upon the Texas annexation and admittance as a state, much of which has been sold over the years to private parties.

Construction of the Trump wall along the border in California, Arizona, and New Mexico was expedited since the reservation reduced the need to acquire additional private property.[5]"

First CA Border Wall circa 1994 vicinity Tecate
Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-01-25 14:34||   2024-01-25 14:34|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ I'm old enough to remember this as well as the undercover SDPD patrols at Smuggler's Gulch and Goat Cyn, as well as the mass-rushes across the border at Tijuana. The fence at the time was old landing-strip panels. It sucked
Posted by Frank G 2024-01-25 18:25||   2024-01-25 18:25|| Front Page Top

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