Texas Governor Greg Abbott has drawn the line on Biden’s border invasion and other Republican states are joining him. Glenn reads the letter Abbot wrote, accusing Biden of violating his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress and the federal government of breaking its compact with the states: “States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president.” It’s time for the states to stand up, Glenn says, as we face yet another constitutional crisis spurred on by the Biden administration.
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GLENN: Let me tell you what's going on. Greg Abbott, yesterday, wrote a letter to the American people, and to the president. And defined his authority and the authority of the United States.
So here's what he wrote. Let me give you the whole letter.
From Governor Greg Abbott, January 24th, 2024: The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states.
Yesterday, we were talking about on this program, is the Constitution a suicide pact?
You know, you joined in, and you said, oh. These are the laws.
And states didn't want to join.
And when they didn't want to join. They said, okay.
What's your problem?
Well, I don't believe you're actually going to, you know, hold these rights. I don't believe you're going to hold the line.
And so the first step was to add the Bill of Rights.
And that was because the states were pushing back saying, I don't believe a federal government.
They had just come out of the war with England, who violated every right. Let's restate these, so we are very clear on the rights of the people. The rights of the states.
And the shackles that are on the government, the federal government.
When it comes to the states coming in, they were afraid, that because it was a -- you know, a weak federal government, and the federal government in the Constitution has the responsibility to protect the border.
But the states said, well, what happens if you don't?
We need to have the authority to be able to protect our own border.
Just in case, somebody comes in, and starts crossing our border.
And it's a -- you know, it's an invasion.
Now, of course, they were thinking about an invasion of an army.
But this is the textbook definition of invasion, if you look at what China planned to do, to invade Russia.
They thought, if there was ever a war with Russia. And they wanted to collapse Russia, all they had to do was send a million people over the border.
On day one.
And have them all surrender.
Day two, another million, would cross the border into Russia.
And surrender. Day three, the -- a third, again, 3 million people now, another million would cross the border and surrender.
They said, by the end of the week, our invasion plan of Russia would collapse Russia.
Well, that's exactly what's happening.
So he said, 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.
President Biden has refused to enforce those laws, and has -- and has even violated them.
The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration. Despite having put on notice in a series of letters, one of which I, Greg Abbott, delivered to him personally by hand. The president has ignored Texas. Demand that he performs his constitutional duties.
President Biden therefore, has violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws, enacted by Congress.
Instead of prosecuting immigrants, for the federal crime of illegal entry, President Biden has sent his lawyers into federal courts to sue Texas, for taking action to secure the border.
President Biden has instructed his agencies, to ignore federal statutes, that mandate, the detention of illegal immigrants.
The effect is to illegally allow their en masse parole into the United States. By wasting taxpayer dollars, to tear open Texas border security, infrastructure. President Biden has enticed illegal immigrants away from the 28 legal entry points, along the state's southern border.
Bridges, where nobody drowns, into the dangerous waters of the Rio Grande. I always get that wrong. Is it right? The Rio Grande? Or Rio Grande?
STU: It's Rico Suave.
GLENN: Okay. Thank you much. That's what I thought.
Under President Biden's lawless border policies, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed our Southern border in just three years.
That is the population. That is more than the population of 33 different states in this country.
And that's the 6 billion, not the ten.
This illegal refusal to protect the United States has inflicted unprecedented harm on the people all across the United States. James Madison. Alexander Hamilton. And other visionaries, who wrote the US Constitution, foresaw that states should not be left at the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats, like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border.
That's why the Framers included both article four, section four, which promises that the federal government shall protect each state against invasion.
And article up, section ten, clause three, which acknowledges, quote, the state's sovereign interests in protecting their border.
Arizona, versus United States.
Blah, blah, blah.
The failure of the Biden administration, on it fulfill its duties, imposed by article four, section four.
Has triggered article one, and section ten. Clause three.
Which reserves this state to the right of self-defense.
For that reason, I have already declared an invasion under article one, section ten, clause three.
To invoke Texas' constitutional authority, to defend and protect itself.
The authority is the supreme law of the land. And supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary.
He is declaring the Constitution covers this. He's pointing out, where it covers this.
How it covers this.
And that now the federal government has no authority, because they failed to do their duty, and he has declared an invasion.
That authority is supreme law of the land. 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 Constitutional authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border. Sincerely, Greg Abbott, governor of Texas.
So what does this mean? Well, it means a constitutional crisis. Because now, we have a state, declaring its constitutional right to protect itself.
And the government saying, you can't do that.
Also, the -- the National Guard, can be called out by a governor. But a National Guard is still under the authority of the president.
So I don't know how that works. But there's plenty of Americans and Texans that will, you know, sign up to protect the border. Not vigilantes. But enough security, enough police officers, former police officers.
That would go and -- and join that, if they were serious about stopping illegals from coming in.
Now, Biden says, well, he just can't get the money.
I just can't get the money.
I -- you know, I would love to do it. But Congress won't give me the money to increase the number of -- it's not about the number of border agents.
It's allowing them to do their job. They're not babysitters. They're -- they are taking their time and taking people to and fro, to NGOs. That then put them on buses, and ship them all over the country.
Last night, I did a TV show. And they cell tracked the routes.
And if you look at where these immigrants are going, mainly they're going back east. But the flow is incredible!
I mean, it looks like a human body, with the artery system. In the veins.
It is an invasion of this country.
And everybody knows it. Sanctuary cities are saying I -- we can't handle it. It's going to collapse us.
You as a state, have a right, if the federal government fails to do its constitutional duty, which we all know it has.
They have failed to do it. This isn't a Trump problem. Trump had this under control.
Biden came in, on day one. And completely, through executive order, overturned everything that Trump had done.
We saw it. And it's only getting worse now.
Our government through NGOs, public/private partnerships. I showed you last night. It is stunning.
What the UN alone is doing, and we're paying for it.
They are intentionally moving people from South America, Central America, and Mexico.
Into the United States. This is all part of the UN. And the WEF. Which Joe Biden is fundamentally signed on for. And leading the world.
So do they have the right to do this?
Well, Ted Cruz says, yep. DeSantis has signed on. And I believe there are four other states. They're not?
DeSantis said, the Constitution really made states powerless to defend themselves against an invasion.
It would never have been ratified in the first place. And Texas certainly, a republic.
You have to understand.
We weren't a commonwealth.
Texas was a republic.
It was a cup. It's the only one in the union.
They had no reason to join the United States. They wanted to.
But they needed to make sure, this is why Texas, the Lone Star state, has just a different attitude here.
Because from the beginning, it's like, we'll join. But we're still Texas.
And they would have never signed on, if they didn't have the right to supersede the government, in protecting its borders, if the government failed on their job.
So he's saying, Texas is upholding the law, while Biden is flouting. We have five states, because you can, in your state, join by declaring an invasion.
When you do that, then your state has the ability, the legal constitutional authority, to protect itself.
That's what needs to happen.
Right now, everybody is just blaming Texas. What has Texas done?
By the way, well, they have to stop.
He sent like 200 buses. Do you realize -- do you not realize, that your tax dollars are paying for buses every single day?
That your tax -- have you been to the airport lately? Have you seen people come in?
They have no ID. They have nothing. They have no identification at all. And they are being loaded on to the plane, with you.
You have to take off your shoes. And your belt.
You have to have the proper ID. You're on a list.
All of this stuff.
They just come on. Nobody knows who they are.
But the federal government is paying for that. Your tax dollars. So don't blame Texas.
Blame the federal government.
You have people that are overwhelming your city. And it's going to happen in all cities. It's Cloward and Piven. They're going to overwhelm the system.
And unless you say, no!
No more!
And you don't wait around for Washington to do it.
Unless your state declares an invasion, you're going to be overrun.
This is the time for the states to stand together.
