Can Texas Save America?

The topic of discussion for this Constitution Monday is the dangerous open border polices of the Biden administration. Texas Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a new law that empowers local officials to arrest migrants who enter Texas illegally.

According to Katelynn Richardson at The Daily Signal, the U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue the state if Texas enforces the law to arrest illegal aliens entering Texas. The Department of Justice claims that the law is unconstitutional because the responsibility for controlling international borders belongs to the federal government. Governor Abbott made the following statement according to Richardson: 

“President [Joe Biden has repeatedly refused to enforce federal immigration laws already on the books and do his job to secure the border,” Abbott previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “In his absence, Texas has the constitutional authority to secure our border through historic laws like SB4. Texas will take this fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary to protect Texans from President Biden’s dangerous open-border policies.”

The Justice Department’s letter cites a 2012 Supreme Court ruling that found Arizona’s state immigration laws, including one that made it a crime to be in the state without authorization, were preempted by federal law, according to the Houston Chronicle.

“Indeed, the Supreme Court has confirmed that ‘the removal process’ must be ‘entrusted to the discretion of the Federal Government’ because a ‘decision on removability’ touches ‘on foreign relations and must be made with one voice,’” the letter states, per the newspaper.

The American Civil Liberties Union sued Texas the day after Abbott signed the law, arguing in the lawsuit filed on behalf of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, American Gateways, and the County of El Paso, Texas, that the law oversteps federal authority.

Chuck DeVore, chief national initiatives officer at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, told the Daily Caller News Foundation in November that the measures in Texas’ bill are “fundamentally different” than the ones in the Arizona law that the Supreme Court struck down. Texas’s law offers those crossing illegally the choice of returning to Mexico or facing the threat of arrest for being in the state illegally, while Arizona’s law was “essentially affirmatively enforcing federal immigration law insofar as asking people for their status and then acting upon that,” he said.

Abbot’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The difference in the two laws – one from Arizona that was shot down and one from Texas that is being threatened – may be enough to force the Federal Government to do something to slow or stop the flow of illegal immigrants into the United States. If the flood continues as it is, Americans will have lost their country.

However, the real dangers come from people living within the borders of the United States. Some of them are people who are here on visas, while others American. Some are actively working to destroy the American way of life, but others refuse to see the dangers overtaking America.

If Biden gets re-elected and continues the same policies that he has followed for the past three years, there will be no coming back without a miracle from God.