Governor Abbott Issues Statement On Texas’ Constitutional Right To Self-Defense
January 24, 2024 | Austin, Texas | Press Release
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.”
empire stretching its resources thin fighting far off wars
local populace ravaged by disease and poverty
major province openly defying central government
yeah this is a certifiable empire collapse moment
Eject Texas from the union the day before the election.
Dumb Texan yankoids go out to vote but there’s pandemonium because they’re not part of America and there are no Texan electoral college votes which would have otherwise fallen to Trump.
This causes genocide Joe to clearly win the election.
Demand that Texas rejoins the union the day after the election.
When they refuse, drone strike Abbott’s house directly and the state capital as you control the empire security apparatus.
Do it you fucking coward
biden should declare war on and immediately surrender to mexico, ceding the previously annexed territory when there isn’t an appropriate indigenous group to return it to.
As much as I like the idea, and the spirit of this comment, I don’t know if it’s fair to make Mexico take responsibility for a state as back ass-wards as Texas.
We’ve spent the better part of 200 years arming a bunch of white settlers while letting them circle jerk themselves raw over mythical Texan exceptionalism and Evangelical Christianity.
Giving Texas back to Mexico, is like feeding a toddler a pound of sugar, giving it a knife, and dropping it off at daycare.
Also, the cartels are real shit.
Border towns are far more dangerous than 20 or 30 years ago.
Good friends of mine who grew up in El Paso, who have family on the Mexican side, avoid crossing over if they don’t have to. Shit’s gotten real.
The Mexican government is pretty much 3 cartels in a trench coat at this point.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I’m pretty sure that organized crime in Mexico would roll over most of Texas in a week. And given how those groups have historically had to hide amongst civlians, they occasionally have to throw the local populations a few crumbs, which means that, if they get taken over by the cartels, Texans might for the first time have a government that does something good for them rather than just murdering them.
For reference Article I, § 10, Clause 3 of the federal US constitution says:
No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
So it looks the TX gov is trying to supercede federal policy on the border by claiming an invasion, empowering the state to do whatever it wants
Joe has a chance to do so many funny or cool things here and it’s so upsetting knowing he will just choose to sit on his hands like every Democrat would in his position.
