Photo: President Joe Biden’s motorcade drives along the U.S.-Mexico border on the way to the Brownsville Border Patrol Station in Brownsville, Texas on February 29, 2024, cropped; public domain
SCOTUS’s 5-4 decision to allow the feds to cut Texas’ border wire was a horrible decision. The failure of the majority on the Supreme Court to explain this capitulation to Biden is divisive, harmful and insulting to Texas. Biden also sued Texas to remove its orange buoys in the Rio Grande.
“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America,” Attorney General Paxton responded to the Court’s ruling. “The destruction of Texas’s border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe. This fight is not over, and I look forward to defending our state’s sovereignty.”
Paxton was right amid the escalating interference by the D.C. elite with local efforts to maintain law and order in Texas. There was a conflict between armed Texas officials and federal agents when the Texans properly denied access by the feds to a border park.
Biden wrongly invokes federal power over the border not to implement law and order, but rather to open it to illegality that includes drug smuggling. A majority of the Supreme Court recognizes the individual right of self-defense to be armed under the Second Amendment, and they should likewise acknowledge state authority to protect itself against the lawless immigration with drugs that Biden is allowing.
Many Texans felt compelled to arm themselves in self-defense for routine trips to the grocery store, in fear of the hordes of illegals let in by Biden. Fortunately, the reelection of Trump would peacefully end this growing conflict between Texas and the D.C. elite, as Trump agrees with Texas in closing the border.
Sound and secure borders are critical to a well-functioning nation. Texas demonstrated bravery by taking matters into their own hands, but the Federal Government and Supreme Court repeatedly took action harmful to the health of Texas and the whole country.
This post originally appeared at https://www.phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/texas-needs-secure-borders/
