Texas 2021 - 87th 2nd C.S.

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1	1	87S20005 KSM-F
2	2	By: Perry, et al. S.C.R. No. 3
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, The State of Texas and the United States federal
7	7	government are charged with protecting 1,254 miles of land along
8	8	Texas' border with Mexico, a job that has become increasingly
9	9	violent as this state has succumbed to a foreign drug
10	10	cartel-facilitated invasion; and
11	11	WHEREAS, These foreign drug cartels bring terror to Texas
12	12	communities by flooding the streets with deadly narcotics, forcing
13	13	women and children into human and sex trafficking, enriching
14	14	themselves on the misery and enslavement of Texans, and butchering
15	15	and murdering anyone who tries to stop them; and
16	16	WHEREAS, In fiscal year 2021, U.S. Customs and Border
17	17	Protection reports over 200,000 pounds of illegal narcotics have
18	18	been seized from foreign drug cartels in Texas; and
19	19	WHEREAS, Specifically, federal seizures of fentanyl in Texas
20	20	have dramatically increased by more than 950 percent this fiscal
21	21	year; and
22	22	WHEREAS, In fiscal year 2021, the U.S. Border Patrol has
23	23	already arrested more than 7,800 noncitizens that were determined
24	24	to have prior criminal records; and
25	25	WHEREAS, The Office of the Texas Attorney General estimates
26	26	that there are 234,000 victims of labor trafficking and 79,000
27	27	victims of youth and minor sex trafficking at any given time in
28	28	Texas; and
29	29	WHEREAS, State and local law enforcement agencies are forced
30	30	to contend with extensive and dangerous criminal activity resulting
31	31	from, or associated with, foreign drug cartels, thereby putting
32	32	Texas law enforcement officials in danger and draining resources
33	33	away from protecting our communities; and
34	34	WHEREAS, The State of Texas has attempted to address the
35	35	problem by adding hundreds of commissioned law enforcement officers
36	36	to the border, purchasing state-of-the-art helicopters, conducting
37	37	border security surge operations, and paying millions of dollars
38	38	for overtime, training, equipment, and technology for local law
39	39	enforcement; and
40	40	WHEREAS, Law enforcement agencies working together in Texas
41	41	have seized billions of dollars in illegal drugs and hundreds of
42	42	millions in cash, along with thousands of firearms and weapons, all
43	43	related to the foreign drug cartel-facilitated invasion; and
44	44	WHEREAS, Texas has repeatedly asked the federal government to
45	45	send more border security resources to the state, requesting an
46	46	increase in manpower of border patrol agents and the deployment of
47	47	National Guard troops; and
48	48	WHEREAS, Texas prisons house thousands of violent offenders
49	49	that claim foreign citizenship, and the state bears the cost of
50	50	housing and prosecuting those offenders; and
51	51	WHEREAS, Texas taxpayers have spent billions compensating
52	52	for the lack of federal resources provided to the state; and
53	53	WHEREAS, The unwillingness of the federal government to
54	54	develop a comprehensive plan that would address this border
55	55	security problem puts an unfair and unreasonable burden on the
56	56	entire state, but in particular on Texas border communities; and
57	57	WHEREAS, The federal government has failed to protect the
58	58	State of Texas from this foreign drug cartel-facilitated invasion
59	59	as required by Article IV, Section 4 of the United States
60	60	Constitution; and
61	61	WHEREAS, Under Article I, Section 10 of the United States
62	62	Constitution, Texas is entitled as a sovereign state of the United
63	63	States of America to protect itself against this current foreign
64	64	drug cartel-facilitated invasion, which grants the State of Texas
65	65	the power to defend the state when the state has been invaded, or is
66	66	"in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay"; now,
67	67	therefore, be it
68	68	RESOLVED, That the 87th Legislature of the State of Texas,
69	69	2nd Called Session, hereby respectfully request the federal
70	70	government to immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as
71	71	foreign terrorist organizations under Section 219 of the
72	72	Immigration and Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1189; and, be it further
73	73	RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby find that foreign
74	74	drug cartels have facilitated an invasion of the State of Texas and
75	75	that the citizens of this state are in danger of irreparable harm;
76	76	and, be it further
77	77	RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby encourage the
78	78	Texas Military Department and all applicable state resources as
79	79	needed to use any and all authority under Article I, Section 10 of
80	80	the United States Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug
81	81	cartel-facilitated invasion, and that such authority should be
82	82	invoked as the authorization for use of military force with the
83	83	intention of utilizing such authority in the least lethal manner
84	84	possible consistent with bringing this facilitated invasion to a
85	85	conclusion at the earliest possible moment.