Texas Governor Abbott Fires Back in the Wake of Absurd Supreme Court Decision

In case you missed it, things are really heating up now along the border between Texas and Mexico, following the terrible decision by the Supreme Court to allow the Biden administration to begin removing the concertina wire and temporary walls that had been put up along the border by Texas law enforcement officials.

Immediately after that decision came down, Texas Governor Greg Abbott published this tweet, vowing to authorize Texas LEOs to continue putting up additional deterrents to illegal immigrants swimming across the Rio Grande:

He followed that on Jan. 23 with this:

“Texas will not back down…” he says. Many who have heard such bold talk from Gov. Abbott previously over the past 3 years but seen little real result outside of the successful program to bus thousands of illegals to Democrat-run sanctuary cities scoffed.

But the scoffing has probably relented a bit on Wednesday, after Abbott sent the letter below to President Biden, which reads very much like the founders’ letters to King George:

“The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the states,” the letter begins, before listing out a litany of ways in which Biden and his apparatchiks have violated the constitution and refused to enforce federal laws to properly control border immigration.

The letter concludes with this: “I have already declared an invasion under Article I, paragraph 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. 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.”

Earlier on Wednesday morning, the Governor posted this tweet:

Indeed, a TV report aired here in the DFW market where I live over the lunch hour showed Texas National Guard deploying additional razor wire in the Eagle Pass area.

Governor Abbott seems intent upon using his gubernatorial powers to set up a showdown of some sorts between Texas and the federal government at the border with Mexico. This has been a long time coming, as the Governor has shown probably too much patience with the outlaw nature of this increasingly evil presidential administration.

This letter from Abbott now places the ball squarely in senile old Joe’s court. It will be interesting to see how, or even if, he responds. Unless Abbott is convinced to relent, the current status is that Texas LEOs and National Guard vastly outnumber federal border patrol agents - most of whom are loyal Texans themselves - along the border.

In an election year, will Biden’s handlers really be prepared to declare a national emergency needed to deploy U.S. military forces to enforce this horrible Supreme Court decision by forcibly throwing the border wide open again?

The next 24-48 hours are going to be very, very interesting.

Stay tuned, and God Bless Texas.

That is all.