TX Gov Threatens To Declare “Invasion” Over Migrants

The New York Times reports:

His efforts to tighten border security and harden Texas’ 1,254-mile frontier have helped Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, hold off challenges from his right and made the lawyerly governor into a regular on Fox News.

Now Mr. Abbott is weighing whether to invoke actual war powers to seize much broader state authority on the border. He could do so, advocates inside and outside his administration argue, by officially declaring an “invasion” to comply with a clause in the U.S. Constitution that says states cannot engage in war except when “actually invaded.”

Top lawyers for Mr. Abbott and for the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, met this month to debate the move, which would put the state in a head-on collision with the federal government by allowing state police to arrest and deport migrants.

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Top lawyers for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state’s attorney general met this month to debate whether to seize broader authority on the border by officially declaring an “invasion” — a use of war powers that complies with a U.S. Constitution clause. https://t.co/MY8WYqrhQE

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