{"id":23076,"date":"2024-01-25T04:58:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23076"},"modified":"2024-01-25T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T10:58:10","slug":"abbott-doubles-down-on-border-invasion-declaration-after-supreme-court-blow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=23076","title":{"rendered":"Abbott doubles down on border \u2018invasion\u2019 declaration after Supreme Court blow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2002<\/u><\/a>(R) on Wednesday accused the federal government of breaking the compact with the states following a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that cleared the way for the Border Patrol to remove razor wire installed by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement, Abbott said, \u201cPresident Biden\u2002<\/u><\/a>has refused to enforce [immigration] laws and has even violated them.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s the latest escalation in a legal and political standoff between Texas and the federal government, though Abbott stopped short of announcing any specific measures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been pushing constitutional boundaries on state versus federal jurisdiction of border and immigration enforcement for the better part of two years; his legal team, including state Attorney General Ken Paxton, first publicly toyed with the idea of formally declaring a border \u201cinvasion\u201d in April 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that November, Abbott wrote Biden invoking a state\u2019s constitutional right to wage war when invaded, but he only made his official invasion declaration public<\/u><\/a> in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since then, the governor has methodically increased the border enforcement roles of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas National Guard, citing the constitutional authority for a state to defend itself against invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary. The Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border,\u201d wrote Abbott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas\u2019s actions have precipitated several legal battles surrounding Operation Lone Star, Abbott\u2019s initiative to take greater control over immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the Supreme Court this week allowed federal officials<\/u><\/a> \u2014 namely, the Border Patrol \u2014 to remove razor wire installed by Texas, that order did not affect other flashpoints in the uneasy relationship between feds and state agents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Earlier this month, Texas officials took over a public park on the shores of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, using Texas National Guard troops to block the Border Patrol from accessing the park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Texas Democratic Rep. Joaquin Castro was the first to call<\/u><\/a> for a federalization of the Texas National Guard, which as a military unit is ultimately under the command of President Biden as commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) followed suit Wednesday in the wake of Abbott\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI agree with Congressman Castro: if Abbott is defying yesterday\u2019s Supreme Court ruling, President Biden needs to establish sole federal control of the Texas National Guard,\u201d said Casar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thehill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott\u2002(R) on Wednesday accused the federal government of breaking the compact with the states following a Supreme Court ruling on Monday that cleared the way for the Border Patrol to remove razor wire installed by Texas along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a statement, Abbott said, \u201cPresident Biden\u2002has refused to enforce [immigration] laws and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26141,1594,1327,26140,1588,9405,1298,6774],"class_list":["post-23076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-the-invasion","tag-abbott","tag-border","tag-greg-casal","tag-rep","tag-statement","tag-texas","tag-the-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23078,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23076\/revisions\/23078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}