{"id":1746950,"date":"2022-11-21T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746950"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:33:02","slug":"texas-gov-abbott-declares-biden-in-violation-of-u-s-constitution-for-not-securing-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-gov-abbott-declares-biden-in-violation-of-u-s-constitution-for-not-securing-border\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Gov. Abbott Declares Biden &#8220;In Violation of U.S. Constitution&#8221; for Not Securing Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-gov-abbott-declares-biden-in-violation-of-u-s-constitution-for-not-securing-border%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-texas\">Texas<\/a> Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-greg-abbott\">Greg Abbott<\/a> has sent a letter to President Joe Biden saying Texas will escalate border security measures by invoking a clause of the U.S. Constitution to\u00a0\u201cprotect its own territory against invasion by the Mexican drug cartels\u201d amid rampant illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour sustained dereliction of duty compels Texas to invoke the powers reserved in Article I, \u00a7 10, Clause 3, which represents \u2018an acknowledgement of the States\u2019 sovereign interest in protecting their borders,\u2019\u201d the Republican governor wrote (<a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/uploads\/files\/press\/BidenJoseph_11.16.22.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy opening our border to this record-breaking level of illegal immigration, you and your Administration are in violation of Article IV, \u00a7 4 of the U.S. Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Days before that, the governor wrote that he invoked the invasion clauses of the U.S. and Texas constitutions to deploy the National Guard to the border, construct the border wall, allow the Texas Department of Public Safety to arrest illegal immigrants, and send some military vehicles to the border. Abbott, for months, has been sending busloads filled with illegal aliens to Democrat-controlled cities such as Washington, Chicago, New York, and now Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the more than 240 years of our great nation, no Administration has done more than yours to place the States in \u2018imminent Danger\u2019\u2014a direct result of your policy decisions and refusal to deliver on the Article IV, \u00a7 4 guarantee,\u201d Abbott wrote to Biden. \u201cIn the absence of action by your Administration to secure the border, every act by Texas officials is taken pursuant to the authority that the Founders recognized in Article I, \u00a7 10, Clause 3.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2014who easily won his reelection bid against Democrat Beto O\u2019Rourke on Nov. 8\u2014also wrote that his administration \u201cescalate our efforts to repel and turn back any immigrant who seeks to enter our State at a border crossing that Congress has designated as illegal,\u201d will arrest criminals who violate state laws, and will return people who crossed into Texas illegally back to the border.<\/p>\n<p>Following Abbott\u2019s letter and invocation of the invasion clause, the Biden administration has yet to issue a public response. The Epoch Times has contacted the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The White House issued a response to Abbott\u2019s recent statements and accused the governor of creating confusion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognize there is currently a race to the bottom amongst some Republican officials desperately vying for political relevance, but using asylum seekers fleeing communism and law enforcement officials as political pawns in their stunt circus is wrong and dangerous,\u201d White House assistant press secretary Abdullah Hasan told ABC News on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4741687\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/09\/20\/GettyImages-1243364846-1200x800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4741687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1243364846-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4741687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/GettyImages-1243364846-600x400-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> Groups of asylum seeking illegal immigrants wait outside the Migrant Resource Center to receive food from the San Antonio Catholic Charities in San Antonio, Texas, on Sept. 19, 2022. (Jordan Vonderhaar\/Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cYour silence in the face of our repeated pleas is deafening. Your refusal to even visit the border for a firsthand look at the chaos you have caused is damning. Two years of inaction on your part now leave Texas with no choice but to escalate our efforts to secure our State,\u201d Abbott wrote. \u201cYour open-border policies, which have catalyzed an unprecedented crisis of illegal immigration, are the sole cause of Texas having to invoke our constitutional authority to defend ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abbott\u2019s budget director, Sarah Hicks, was asked by a reporter last week about Abbott\u2019s invocation of the invasion clause. Hicks remarked that it wasn\u2019t really a change in Texas\u2019s tactics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it is a change in overall tactic as much as it is a reminder to all of us, to Congress and to the members working the issue that this is serious and it demands a full and serious response,\u201d Hicks said.<\/p>\n<h2>Deployment<\/h2>\n<p>On Nov. 16, the governor sent a separate letter to the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Military Department and called on them to expand their efforts to deal with \u201cgrowing illegal immigration along the Texas-Mexico border,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/gov.texas.gov\/news\/post\/operation-lone-star-escalates-unprecedented-border-security-efforts\">according<\/a> to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have an essential assignment: Use every available tool and strategy to fight back against the unprecedented invasion that Texas is seeing at our border. Until Congress acts or the Biden Administration does its constitutionally required job, Texas Guardsmen and Troopers must bear the burden of securing the border,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 50 soldiers, meanwhile, will be trained to operate armored personnel carrier vehicles to carry infantry troops to combat zones alongside tanks, officials told local media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese actions are part of a larger strategy to use every available tool to fight back against the record-breaking level of illegal immigration,\u201d the Texas Military Department said in a statement\u00a0to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/11\/18\/texas-border-military-armored-vehicles-operation-lone-star\/\">Texas Tribune<\/a>. \u201cThe Texas National Guard is taking unprecedented measures to safeguard our border and to repel and turn-back immigrants trying to cross the border illegally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The war of words over illegal immigration comes as a watchdog, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/5-5-million-illegal-aliens-crossed-us-border-since-biden-took-office-report_4844013.html\">reported<\/a> in early November that the number of aliens who have entered the U.S. since Biden took over last year has reached 5.5 million.\u00a0Dan Stein, president of FAIR, told NTD News that figure appears to be an all-time high.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-jack-phillips\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2019\/06\/13\/Jack-Phillips.jpg\" alt=\"Jack Phillips\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"names\">\n<p>Breaking News Reporter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter at The Epoch Times based in New York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Gov. 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