OK well, that's not exactly what it says, but it is VERY dramatic. Kiwifarms just posted this in Happenings, and I didn't believe it was real, but here it is right on the governor's website.
Here are some fun quotes:
The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. 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 even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration.
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border. That is why the Framers included both Article IV, Β§ 4, which promises that the federal government βshall protect each [State] against invasion,β and Article I, Β§ 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges βthe States' sovereign interest in protecting their borders.β Arizona v. United States, 567 U.S. 387, 419 (2012) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
The failure of the Biden Administration to fulfill the duties imposed by Article IV, Β§ 4 has triggered Article I, Β§ 10, Clause 3, which reserves to this State the right of self-defense. For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, Β§ 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.
So, the question here is, IS IT HAPPENING?
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!nooticers !schizos if this is so much important, then why do I see almost no news anywhere in either reddit, or mainstream news sites, or Texas news sites talking about it?, perhaps the establishment thinks that this precedent is catastrophic, so they intentionally want this news to remain low-profile and little talked about, to avoid stoking the flames?
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Everything is low profile these days. /r/politics is nowhere as active as it used to be before, earlier everything said and done by and about republicans got posted
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Just give it a couple months. Unless shareblue and similar groups have decided that reddit isn't even worth astroturfing anymore.
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Bruh they didn't even astroturf the fact that Trump's name was Epstein list
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Darn it's truly over
Even the shareblue bots don't want to be on reddit
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if this is so important why isn't reddit talking about it?
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Neighbor if the world capital of TDS is not talking about it then it sounds fishy, I also searched up for mainstream news sites and Texas sites and they are not talking about it, or it is not in their main headlines.
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Fishy in what way, though? You can follow the link in my post and download the PDF directly off the governor's official website.
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How redditors are not talking about it more? I could only find these two posts on /r/politics and /r/Texas:
https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/19esfa4/governor_abbott_issues_statement_on_texas?sort=controversial
https://old.reddit.com/r/texas/comments/19es2x8/governor_abbott_declares_an_invasion_supersedes?sort=controversial
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This whole thing is sorta contrived. Unless Texas tries to kick feds off federal land, it's all a nothing burger.
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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Omfg it'd be so based if Texas reclaims the injun land
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Didn't they emanate domain the boarder area like last week?
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I think that's where a lot of confusion comes from. Most of the border is state/private land. Very very little is federal. Texas can do what they want on their land and private people can allow Texas to fortify their land if they want. The dispute is over a tiny percentage of the border that the Supreme Court said Texas can't fortify
Read what I wrote above. Now picture in your head that I put a /s at the end. Good job sweaty!
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FROM WHAT @Sphereserf3232 CAN TELL THERE'S ALMOST NO FEDERAL LAND IN TEXAS OUTSIDE OF MILITARY INSTALLATIONS AND BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, EVERYTHING ELSE IS STATE OR PRIVATE LAND APART FROM THE THREE TINY RESERVATIONS ON THE EDGES OF THE STATE
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Kinda weird, I just went to nyt looking for some sort of analysis and there wasn't any mention of this
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Why would they want the country to nootice what's happening at the border and start thinking states have rights?
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