Things on the southern border are bad, and they are getting worse. The Biden administration is enabling this, and at least one border-state governor has had enough. On Wednesday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued a statement putting the Biden administration on notice over illegal immigration.
My statement on Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense. pic.twitter.com/seNFZdmujP
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 24, 2024
Nobody with the sense of a stuffed armadillo can deny that the Biden administration’s border policies have been a calamity. A few points in Governor Abbott’s statement, though, merit some serious consideration, not just in light of the immigration problem but in the sense that there is a constitutional crisis in the offing. The governor writes:
The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the…