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Vermont’s The Only GOP Governor Not To Sign Statement Supporting Texas Governor’s Attempts To Stop Illegal Immigrants At State’s Mexico Border
January 26, 2024
Vermont Governor Phil Scott is the only Republican governors in the country who has not expressed public support for Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s claim that he has a right to stop illegal immigrants from coming into the United States over Texas’s border with Mexico.
The statement, which according to the Republican Governors Association was signed by 25 Republican governors, says:
President Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border. Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country.
We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border. We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.
The authors of the U.S. Constitution made clear that in times like this, states have a right of self-defense, under Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Because the Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.
Article 4, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution says in part with respect to states: “The United States … shall protect each of them against Invasion …”
Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution states: “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, 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.”
The Republican governors’ statement is dated Thursday, January 25.
Signers of the statement supporting the Texas governor are the Republican governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
The United States has 27 Republican governors and 23 Democratic governors.
The Biden administration wants to remove the razor wire. Critics of Abbott’s moves to secure the border say they are dangerous to migrants crossing and exceed his authority as governor. They say migrants coming across the border does not constitute an invasion.
On Monday, January 22, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an order allowing the federal government to remove razor wire at the Texas border with Mexico. On a 5-4 vote – with John Roberts and Amby Coney Barrett joining liberals Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotamayor, and Kentanji Brown Jackson – the court vacated a lower-court injunction that stopped the federal government from doing so. Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh voted to let the lower-court injunction stay in place.
Even so, Governor Abbott is doubling down, putting more razor wire along Texas’s southern border.
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