Texas 2023 - 88th 1st C.S.

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1	1	By: Creighton S.C.R. No. 1
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4	4	SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
5	5	WHEREAS, Transnational cartels are exploiting weak and
6	6	unsecure points along the United States Southern Border to expand
7	7	their criminal enterprises and terrorize Americans; and
8	8	WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by
9	9	U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman,
10	10	and child; and
11	11	WHEREAS, The State of Texas is charged with protecting its
12	12	citizens and is empowered to defend itself against invasion under
13	13	Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution;
14	14	WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution
15	15	states that the Governor of Texas "shall be Commander-in-Chief of
16	16	the military forces of the State" and has the power to organize
17	17	armed forces to "repel invasions"; and
18	18	WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government is charged, in
19	19	the United States Constitution, to "provide for the common defense"
20	20	and protect its States "against invasion" under the Preamble and
21	21	Article IV, Section 4, respectively; and
22	22	WHEREAS, The State of Texas has spent $4 billion on border
23	23	initiatives in the 2021-2022 biennium, investing in
24	24	state-of-the-art detection equipment, a border wall, and calling up
25	25	tens of thousands of members of National and State Guard units;
26	26	WHEREAS, Operation Lone Star's multi-agency effort has led to
27	27	over 352,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 23,000
28	28	criminal arrests; and
29	29	WHEREAS, Both human and drug trafficking by transnational
30	30	cartels have created a security threat and humanitarian disaster by
31	31	terrorizing residents of the United States and the State of Texas;
32	32	and
33	33	WHEREAS, Four United States citizens were kidnapped by a
34	34	cartel abroad in early March, two of them brutally murdered.
35	35	Unfortunately, the tragic incident was not isolated, and violence
36	36	permeates any area these transnational cartels inhabit; and
37	37	WHEREAS, The continual violation of Texas's sovereignty and
38	38	territorial integrity has resulted in reports of residents of Texas
39	39	being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed; now,
40	40	therefore, be it
41	41	RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas
42	42	hereby declare an invasion by transnational cartel terrorists under
43	43	Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution and Article
44	44	IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution; and, be it further
45	45	RESOLVED, That the Legislature ask Governor Abbott to
46	46	accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border,
47	47	utilizing Eminent Domain where necessary, to prevent the entrance
48	48	of transnational cartels into the state; and, be it further
49	49	RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the U.S. Congress
50	50	recognize its obligation under the U.S. Constitution to "provide
51	51	for the common defense" by voting to deploy U.S. military forces to
52	52	combat transnational cartels; and, be it further
53	53	RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the federal
54	54	government allocate more financial support to Texas' border
55	55	security wall and reimburse Texas for past expenditures on security
56	56	efforts to repel invaders at its Southern Border; and, be it further
57	57	RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
58	58	copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to
59	59	the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
60	60	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
61	61	of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
62	62	resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
63	63	memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.