UPDATE: 25 States Now Stand with Texas Governor Greg Abbott – Signal Letter Supporting Texas’ Constitutional Proper to Self-Protection | The Gateway Pundit

In a big escalation of tensions over the U.S.-Mexico border insurance policies, a number of Republican governors are uniting in assist of Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s problem towards the Biden regime.

This transfer comes within the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courtroom’s resolution permitting the removing of razor wire put in by Texas on the border.

Governor Abbott deployed roughly 30 miles of razor wire close to Eagle Cross, Texas, as a barrier towards unlawful immigration.

Nonetheless, this transfer was challenged in courtroom, resulting in a fancy authorized battle. Regardless of setbacks in decrease courts, the state’s efforts had been momentarily buoyed by a call from the fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, which was overturned by the Supreme Court’s 5-4 vote.

Conservative justices Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett (Trump appointee) sided with the liberals and granted the Biden Regime’s emergency request. That is the ninth time that the Supreme Courtroom has sided with the Biden regime out of 14 emergency purposes.

Regardless of the Supreme Courtroom’s resolution, Texas officers, together with Governor Abbott and Lawyer Normal Ken Paxton, have expressed their intent to proceed measures to bolster the border. Texas Nationwide Guard members started installing more razor wire in Eagle Cross.

“The Supreme Court’s temporary order allows Biden to continue his illegal effort to aid the foreign invasion of America,” Attorney General Paxton said.

“The destruction of Texas’s border barriers will not help enforce the law or keep American citizens safe. This fight is not over, and I look forward to defending our state’s sovereignty,” he added.

Governor Abbott, in a fiery assertion, lambasted Joe Biden for failing to implement immigration legal guidelines and thereby violating his oath of workplace. He then declared an “invasion” underneath Article I, § 10, Clause 3, asserting Texas’s proper to self-defense.

The Texas response has drawn backing from a number of different Republican-led states, fueling a rising standoff between state and federal authorities. Governors from purple states have publicly declared their assist for Texas’s proper to self-defense towards the lawless Biden regime.

As reported earlier, Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis expressed his stance, emphasizing constitutional rules and pledging ongoing help to Texas.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem additionally praised Texas’s actions and criticized the Biden regime for making a nationwide safety disaster.

There are actually 25 states standing in solidarity with Texas in defending its worldwide border from invasion.

Listed here are the 25 Republican governors who’ve signed on to assist Governor Greg Abbott.

Benny Johnson posted the map.

25 Republican governors signed on to a joint assertion in assist of Governor Abbott.
The list includes.

Wyoming – Gov. Mark Gordon
Iowa – Gov. Kim Reynolds
Arkansas – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Montana – Gov. Greg Gianforte
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
Idaho – Gov. Brad Little
North Dakota – Gov. Doug Burgum
Nebraska – Gov. Jim Pillen
West Virginia – Gov. Jim Justice
Alabama – Gov. Kay Ivey
Tennessee – Gov. Invoice Lee
Louisiana – Gov. Jeff Landry
Georgia Gov. – Brian Kemp
Utah – Gov. Spencer Cox
Virginia – Gov. Glenn Youngkin
South Dakota – Gov. Kristi Noem
Oklahoma – Gov. Kevin Stitt
Alaska – Gov. Mike Dunleavy
Indiana – Gov. Eric Holcomb
Mississippi – Gov. Tate Reeves
Missouri – Gov. Mike Parson
Nevada – Gov. Joe Lombardo
New Hampshire – Gov. Chris Sununu
Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine
South Carolina – Gov. Henry McMaster

Here’s a copy of the statement.

“President Biden and his Administration have left Individuals and our nation utterly susceptible to unprecedented unlawful immigration pouring throughout the Southern border. As a substitute of upholding the rule of regulation and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping as much as defend Americans from historic ranges of unlawful immigrants, lethal medication like fentanyl, and terrorists coming into our nation.

“We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in using each instrument and technique, together with razor wire fences, to safe the border. We do it partially as a result of the Biden Administration is refusing to implement immigration legal guidelines already on the books and is illegally permitting mass parole throughout America of migrants who entered our nation illegally.

“The authors of the U.S. Constitution made clear that in times like this, states have a right of self-defense, under Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Because the Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.”

Signatories embody: Governor Kay Ivey (AL), Governor Mike Dunleavy (AK), Governor Sarah Sanders (AR), Governor Ron DeSantis (FL), Governor Brian Kemp (GA), Governor Brad Little (ID), Governor Eric Holcomb (IN), Governor Kim Reynolds (IA), Governor Jeff Landry (LA), Governor Tate Reeves (MS), Governor Mike Parson (MO), Governor Greg Gianforte (MT), Governor Jim Pillen (NE), Governor Joe Lombardo (NV), Governor Chris Sununu (NH), Governor Doug Burgum (ND), Governor Mike DeWine (OH), Governor Kevin Stitt (OK), Governor Henry McMaster (SC), Governor Kristi Noem (SD), Governor Invoice Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).