Bill Text: TX SCR2 | 2023 | 88th Legislature 3rd Special Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Declaring an invasion of the State of Texas by transnational cartel terrorists, urging the governor to accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border, and demanding that Congress deploy military forces to combat transnational cartels.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-10-09 - Filed [SCR2 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR2-Introduced.html
88S30433 KSM-F | ||
By: Creighton | S.C.R. No. 2 |
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WHEREAS, Transnational cartels are exploiting weak and | ||
unsecure points along the United States Southern Border to expand | ||
their criminal enterprises and terrorize Americans; and | ||
WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by | ||
U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman, | ||
and child; and | ||
WHEREAS, The State of Texas is charged with protecting its | ||
citizens and is empowered to defend itself against invasion under | ||
Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution; and | ||
WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution | ||
states that the Governor of Texas "shall be Commander-in-Chief of | ||
the military forces of the State" and has the power to organize | ||
armed forces to "repel invasions"; and | ||
WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government is charged, in | ||
the United States Constitution, to "provide for the common defense" | ||
and protect its States "against invasion" under the Preamble and | ||
Article IV, Section 4, respectively; and | ||
WHEREAS, The State of Texas has spent $4 billion on border | ||
initiatives in the 2021-2022 biennium, investing in | ||
state-of-the-art detection equipment, a border wall, and calling up | ||
tens of thousands of members of National and State Guard units; and | ||
WHEREAS, Operation Lone Star's multi-agency effort has led to | ||
over 352,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 23,000 | ||
criminal arrests; and | ||
WHEREAS, Both human and drug trafficking by transnational | ||
cartels have created a security threat and humanitarian disaster by | ||
terrorizing residents of the United States and the State of Texas; | ||
and | ||
WHEREAS, Four United States citizens were kidnapped by a | ||
cartel abroad in early March 2023, two of them brutally murdered; | ||
unfortunately, the tragic incident was not isolated, and violence | ||
permeates any area these transnational cartels inhabit; and | ||
WHEREAS, The continual violation of Texas' sovereignty and | ||
territorial integrity has resulted in reports of residents of Texas | ||
being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, | ||
3rd Called Session, hereby declare an invasion by transnational | ||
cartel terrorists under Article I, Section 10 of the United States | ||
Constitution and Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution; | ||
and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Legislature ask Governor Abbott to | ||
accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border, | ||
utilizing Eminent Domain where necessary, to prevent the entrance | ||
of transnational cartels into the state; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the U.S. Congress | ||
recognize its obligation under the U.S. Constitution to "provide | ||
for the common defense" by voting to deploy U.S. military forces to | ||
combat transnational cartels; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the federal | ||
government allocate more financial support to Texas' border | ||
security wall and reimburse Texas for past expenditures on security | ||
efforts to repel invaders at its Southern Border; and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to | ||
the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members | ||
of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this | ||
resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |