By The FirstTexas Governor Greg Abbott released a statement Wednesday afternoon rejecting Joe Biden’s authority over the southern border.
In his brief memo, the Republican cited the Founding Fathers while insisting no state is at the “mercy of a lawless President.”
“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, § 4, which promises that the federal government “shall protect each [State] against invasion,” and Article I, § 10, Clause 3, which acknowledges “the States’ sovereign interest in protecting their borders,” wrote Abbott.
