Texas Declares Official Emergency: “Our Southern Border Is Being Invaded”

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Texas declares an emergency at the southern border

Texas had declared an official emergency at the U.S. Southern Border due to the ongoing “invasion” by illegal aliens.

Officials from at least four border counties in southern Texas announced Tuesday that they were making an emergency “invasion” declaration.

The officials stated that the declaration is necessary to help them deal with Joe Biden’s catastrophic border crisis.

“The move aligns with some conservative officials and activists who have privately urged Abbott to begin unilaterally enforcing federal immigration laws,” the Houston Chronicle reported.

“Expelling migrants from the country would be unprecedented for the state but justified, they argue, by the Biden administration’s push to expand legal pathways for migrants to enter the country.”

Nypost.com reports: “We’re being invaded. The facts are there,” said Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan at a press conference in Brackettville, Texas. “This is real. We want America to know this is real. America doesn’t know what’s happening here.”

County officials from Kinney, Goliad, Terrell and Uvalde Counties criticized the Biden Administration for what they called its “open border policy.”

The officials each shared stories of how their communities are being inundated by immigrants as humans and drugs are smuggled through their small towns on a daily basis.

The number of reported migrant encounters along the US-Mexico border once again made history in May — hitting a staggering 239,416 encounters, according to the latest available monthly Customs and Border Patrol statistics.

The counties were contacted by a former President Donald Trump official, Ken Cuccinelli, who has talked them into believing they can use the “self-help provision of the Constitution to declare an invasion.”

“This gives the governor, if he decided similarly, the authority to repeal that invasion,” Cuccinelli said at the press conference today.

The former Trump Department of Homeland Security official claims that now that the Kinney County Attorney, a legal authority has declared an invasion, Gov. Greg Abbott can “repeal” immigrants. He envisions a Title 42-style program, where immigrants– even those seeking asylum– are automatically deported if they cross the Texas border.

The Center for Renewing America has been reaching out to states and counties across the country, looking for any local government that would be willing to go along with it, the spokeswoman for the organization told The Post.

A Fox News legal analyst said this likely wouldn’t survive a court challenge.

“As they say in Texas, this dog won’t hunt. They’re relying on the guarantee clause of Article Four, Section Four, and that deals with an invasion, which is generally interpreted and long interpreted to mean an actual foreign invasion in the form of an army, an organized force,” said Jonathan Turley told Fox News.

In the past, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has resisted calls by the same group to declare an “invasion,” according to the Texas Tribune.

7 Comments

  1. Either Huffines or West would’ve made better governors and both would’ve secured the Texas border. Abbott is nothing more than a GWB run-on. Bringing illegals closer to my state rather than sending them back across the border. What a stupid idea! Or is there more to this?

  2. Exactly. And Americas government should 1 have been invading the soutgers neighbours and accusing them of crimes against humanity. As appropriate to the truth of the matter. No people should have to be fleeing like that from an evil corrupt criminal government unfit to rule.But no, they House shuts its mickey mouse mouth, and hides its deceits and its complicity and its duplicity from the people.

  3. Better late than never.. still I doubt there will be any substantive changes. It’s mostly political grandstanding. Hope to be proven wrong.

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