Texas 2023 - 88th 3rd C.S.

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1	1	88S30433 KSM-F
2	2	By: Creighton S.C.R. No. 2
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5	5	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
6	6	WHEREAS, Transnational cartels are exploiting weak and
7	7	unsecure points along the United States Southern Border to expand
8	8	their criminal enterprises and terrorize Americans; and
9	9	WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by
10	10	U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman,
11	11	and child; and
12	12	WHEREAS, The State of Texas is charged with protecting its
13	13	citizens and is empowered to defend itself against invasion under
14	14	Article I, Section 10 of the United States Constitution; and
15	15	WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution
16	16	states that the Governor of Texas "shall be Commander-in-Chief of
17	17	the military forces of the State" and has the power to organize
18	18	armed forces to "repel invasions"; and
19	19	WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government is charged, in
20	20	the United States Constitution, to "provide for the common defense"
21	21	and protect its States "against invasion" under the Preamble and
22	22	Article IV, Section 4, respectively; and
23	23	WHEREAS, The State of Texas has spent $4 billion on border
24	24	initiatives in the 2021-2022 biennium, investing in
25	25	state-of-the-art detection equipment, a border wall, and calling up
26	26	tens of thousands of members of National and State Guard units; and
27	27	WHEREAS, Operation Lone Star's multi-agency effort has led to
28	28	over 352,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 23,000
29	29	criminal arrests; and
30	30	WHEREAS, Both human and drug trafficking by transnational
31	31	cartels have created a security threat and humanitarian disaster by
32	32	terrorizing residents of the United States and the State of Texas;
33	33	and
34	34	WHEREAS, Four United States citizens were kidnapped by a
35	35	cartel abroad in early March 2023, two of them brutally murdered;
36	36	unfortunately, the tragic incident was not isolated, and violence
37	37	permeates any area these transnational cartels inhabit; and
38	38	WHEREAS, The continual violation of Texas' sovereignty and
39	39	territorial integrity has resulted in reports of residents of Texas
40	40	being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed; now,
41	41	therefore, be it
42	42	RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas,
43	43	3rd Called Session, hereby declare an invasion by transnational
44	44	cartel terrorists under Article I, Section 10 of the United States
45	45	Constitution and Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution;
46	46	and, be it further
47	47	RESOLVED, That the Legislature ask Governor Abbott to
48	48	accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border,
49	49	utilizing Eminent Domain where necessary, to prevent the entrance
50	50	of transnational cartels into the state; and, be it further
51	51	RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the U.S. Congress
52	52	recognize its obligation under the U.S. Constitution to "provide
53	53	for the common defense" by voting to deploy U.S. military forces to
54	54	combat transnational cartels; and, be it further
55	55	RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the federal
56	56	government allocate more financial support to Texas' border
57	57	security wall and reimburse Texas for past expenditures on security
58	58	efforts to repel invaders at its Southern Border; and, be it further
59	59	RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official
60	60	copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to
61	61	the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of
62	62	Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members
63	63	of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this
64	64	resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a
65	65	memorial to the Congress of the United States of America.