Texas Moves One Step Closer To Asking SCOTUS To Rewrite National Immigration Law

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The Texas House last week moved towards a showdown with the federal government over who has the authority to control the national border.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1457637
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Knowing how our governor operates, he probably wants to “repel” them this way…

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We’re heading back to the Articles of Confederation here.

Next, Texas will ask SCOTUS for permission to INVADE Mexico.

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And they’ll catch a beating.

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Maybe Mexico then can retake Texas? I wouldn’t mind.

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Have you ever had a can of cat food hit ya?

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For context:

“Over the past two days, the United States Border Patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of encounters versus what we were experiencing earlier in the week before Title 42 ended at midnight on Thursday,” Mayorkas said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Everybody has been under the assumption that restrictions, such as Title 42, have been the thin barrier keeping a wave of migrants from rushing our borders. Its looking more likely that they were part of the cause of the increase in border crossings.

I hope the Biden Administration, DHS and the DOJ pound these facts over and over when this case gets to the SCOTUS. Overruling the Supremacy Clause is a massive refutation of the US Constitution, but doing so based on wrong assumptions is the ultimate insult to our country. That might be enough to give a few Justices a pause on ruling in favor of Texas.

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The passage demonstrates how committed Texas Republicans are to challenging a basic principle undergirding national immigration law: that the federal government, and not the states, has the responsibility for border enforcement.

And you can damned well bet that Texas will be demanding federal funding for their “state obligation”!

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Nope, that’ll risk war with America.

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I think you mean…one roll closer.

I’ll let myself out.

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Only states bordering Texas need intervene: Okla., La., N.M., Ark.

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It’s always about the money. Always.

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Back on the post-Putin discussion again today.

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Can they take Kennedy with them?

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Texas has always believed that it’s a separate country. If the Texas Republicans had their way, they would secede in fact as well as in fantasy.

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The party of Law and Order, folks.

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I always thought the best way to get Mexico to pay for building Trump’s border wall would be to sell Texas to Mexico. It would also have the side effect of making it much easier to actually build a border wall

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“The Texas House last week moved towards a showdown with the federal government over who has the authority to control the national border.”

I thought the US Constitution and case law was quite clear on this. The federal government alone has the right to create foreign policy and to regulate borders. It was violation of those principles by various idiots living along the Canadian border that dragged the nascent USA into the ridiculous War of 1812. Few would dispute the the War of 1812 was a mistake.

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They won’t ever secede but will forever “threaten” to do so. Texas advertises how tough they are, how they don’t need no stupid government, but in fact they need us more than we need them.

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“Texas asking the SCOTUS to rewrite immigration law”
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Point of order!
The SCOTUS. doesn’t write laws. Congress does. And the president signs them. The Court is supposed to interpret laws, not write them

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