Texas governor doing 'exactly right thing' amid constitutional battle over border enforcement: legal experts - WFIN Local News

"ABBOTT DECLARES TEXAS HAS 'RIGHT TO SELF-DEFENSE' FROM MIGRANT 'INVASION' AMID FEUD WITH BIDEN ADMINHamilton noted that he believed the Supreme Court's controversial order was wrong and gave too much weight to the government's assertions about the wire's effect on the federal government's ability to enforce immigration laws."

"In 2012, the Supreme Court decided a case against Arizona brought by the federal government, which sued after Arizona empowered state officials to enforce immigration laws."

"Late Wednesday night, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared his constitutional authority to reserve the right of his state to self-defense against an invasion, adding that the executive branch had broken its constitutional pact with the states by failing to enforce federal immigration laws."

"As to Abbott's Article 1 assertions, von Spakovsky said that "whether or not what is happening is an 'invasion' within the meaning of the Constitution is a controversial and legally undetermined issue."

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""GOP GOVERNORS RALLY BEHIND TEXAS AS ABBOTT DEFIES BIDEN: 'DERELICTION OF DUTY'"It is truly shocking and outrageous that the Biden administration has so intentionally and deliberately mishandled the security of our Southern border that states like Texas, for the first time in our history, feel the need to invoke the invasion clause," von Spakovsky said."

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"AS GOP ALLIES BACK ABBOTTnnGene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel at America First Legal and a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration, said Abbott's continuation of installing the razor wire is "exactly the right move."

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"AS GOP ALLIES BACK ABBOTTnnGene Hamilton, vice president and general counsel at America First Legal and a former Justice Department official in the Trump administration, said Abbott's continuation of installing the razor wire is "exactly the right move."

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"The latest Supreme Court decision in Texas' battle with the Biden White House has sparked a showdown over the Lone Star State's constitutional authority to defend itself with the federal government seemingly getting in its way."

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""It should be no surprise that Gov. Abbott has chosen to embrace Justice Scalia's theory of state sovereignty in defending Texas's actions."

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"Late Wednesday night, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott declared his constitutional authority to reserve the right of his state to self-defense against an invasion, adding that the executive branch had broken its constitutional pact with the states by failing to enforce federal immigration laws.nn"

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""Article 1, Section 10, which Abbott says was "triggered" by Biden's inaction at the border, states, "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Toage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

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""Article 1, Section 10, which Abbott says was "triggered" by Biden's inaction at the border, states, "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Toage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."

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