Texas 2023 - 88th 3rd C.S.

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1	1	88S30282 KSM-F
2	2	By: Schaefer H.C.R. No. 21
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, The State of Texas and the United States federal
7	7	government have 1,254 miles of land to protect along Texas' border
8	8	with Mexico, a job that has become increasingly violent as this
9	9	state has been subjected to an invasion by foreign drug cartels; and
10	10	WHEREAS, These foreign drug cartels bring terror to Texas
11	11	communities by flooding the streets with deadly narcotics, forcing
12	12	women and children into human and sex trafficking, enriching
13	13	themselves on the misery and enslavement of Texans, and butchering
14	14	and murdering anyone who tries to stop them; and
15	15	WHEREAS, State and local law enforcement agencies are forced
16	16	to contend with extensive and dangerous criminal activity resulting
17	17	from, or associated with, foreign drug cartels, thereby putting
18	18	Texas law enforcement officials in danger and draining resources
19	19	away from protecting our communities; and
20	20	WHEREAS, The State of Texas has acted to address the problem
21	21	by adding hundreds of commissioned law enforcement officers to the
22	22	border, purchasing state-of-the-art helicopters, conducting border
23	23	security surge operations, and paying millions of dollars for
24	24	overtime, training, equipment, and technology for local law
25	25	enforcement; and
26	26	WHEREAS, Law enforcement agencies working together in Texas
27	27	have seized billions of dollars in illegal drugs and hundreds of
28	28	millions in cash, along with thousands of firearms and other
29	29	weapons, all related to the invasion of foreign drug cartels; and
30	30	WHEREAS, Texas has repeatedly asked the federal government to
31	31	send more border security resources to the state, requesting an
32	32	increase in manpower and authority for border patrol agents and
33	33	other federal personnel; and
34	34	WHEREAS, Texas prisons house violent offenders that claim
35	35	foreign citizenship, and the state bears the cost of housing and
36	36	prosecuting those offenders; and
37	37	WHEREAS, Texas taxpayers have spent billions compensating
38	38	for the lack of federal resources provided to the state; and
39	39	WHEREAS, The federal government's failure to develop a
40	40	comprehensive plan to address this border security problem puts an
41	41	unfair and unreasonable burden on the entire state, especially on
42	42	Texas border communities, in violation of Article IV, Section 4 of
43	43	the United States Constitution; and
44	44	WHEREAS, Under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United
45	45	States Constitution, Texas is entitled as a sovereign state of the
46	46	United States of America to protect itself against this current
47	47	foreign drug cartel invasion; this constitutional authority grants
48	48	the State of Texas the power to defend the state when the state has
49	49	been invaded or is "in such imminent Danger as will not admit of
50	50	delay"; and
51	51	WHEREAS, The governor, in a letter to the president of the
52	52	United States on November 16, 2022, invoked the authority under
53	53	Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, to protect
54	54	the State of Texas; now, therefore, be it
55	55	RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas,
56	56	3rd Called Session, hereby demand the federal government to
57	57	immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as foreign
58	58	terrorist organizations under Section 219 of the Immigration and
59	59	Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1189; and, be it further
60	60	RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby find that the
61	61	State of Texas has been invaded by foreign drug cartels and that the
62	62	citizens of this state are in imminent danger of irreparable harm;
63	63	and, be it further
64	64	RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby encourage all
65	65	applicable state and local resources as needed, to use any and all
66	66	authority under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States
67	67	Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug cartel invasion,
68	68	and that such authority should be invoked with the intention of
69	69	utilizing such authority in the most peaceful manner possible
70	70	consistent with bringing this invasion to a conclusion at the
71	71	earliest possible moment.