Bill Text: TX SCR29 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Declaring an invasion of the State of Texas by transnational cartel terrorists, urging the governor to accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border, and urging Congress to deploy military forces to combat transnational cartels.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-05-17 - Co-author authorized [SCR29 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR29-Comm_Sub.html
| By: Creighton | S.C.R. No. 29 | |
| (In the Senate - Filed March 10, 2023; March 16, 2023, read | ||
| first time and referred to Committee on Border Security; | ||
| May 10, 2023, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 3, | ||
| Nays 2; May 10, 2023, sent to printer.) | ||
| COMMITTEE VOTE YeaNayAbsent PNVBirdwell X Flores X Blanco X Hinojosa X King X | ||
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| WHEREAS, Transnational cartels are exploiting weak and | ||
| unsecure points along the United States Southern Border to expand | ||
| their criminal enterprises and terrorize Americans; and | ||
| WHEREAS, 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl were seized by | ||
| U.S. authorities in 2022, enough to kill every American man, woman, | ||
| and child; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The State of Texas is charged with protecting its | ||
| citizens and is empowered to defend itself against invasion under | ||
| Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Article IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution | ||
| states that the Governor of Texas "shall be Commander-in-Chief of | ||
| the military forces of the State" and has the power to organize | ||
| armed forces to "repel invasions"; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The United States Federal Government is charged, in | ||
| the United States Constitution, to "provide for the common defense" | ||
| and protect its States "against invasion" under the Preamble and | ||
| Article IV, Section 4, respectively; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The State of Texas has spent $4 billion on border | ||
| initiatives in the 2021-2022 biennium, investing in | ||
| state-of-the-art detection equipment, a border wall, and calling up | ||
| tens of thousands of members of National and State Guard units; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Operation Lone Star's multi-agency effort has led to | ||
| over 352,000 illegal immigrant apprehensions and more than 23,000 | ||
| criminal arrests; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Both human and drug trafficking by transnational | ||
| cartels have created a security threat and humanitarian disaster by | ||
| terrorizing residents of the United States and the State of Texas; | ||
| and | ||
| WHEREAS, Four United States citizens were kidnapped by a | ||
| cartel abroad in early March, two of them brutally murdered. | ||
| Unfortunately, the tragic incident was not isolated, and violence | ||
| permeates any area these transnational cartels inhabit; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The continual violation of Texas' sovereignty and | ||
| territorial integrity has resulted in reports of residents of Texas | ||
| being assaulted, threatened with violence, and robbed; now, | ||
| therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby declare an invasion by transnational cartel terrorists under | ||
| Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution and Article | ||
| IV, Section 7 of the Texas Constitution; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Legislature ask Governor Abbott to | ||
| accelerate the construction of a wall along the Southern Border, | ||
| utilizing Eminent Domain where necessary, to prevent the entrance | ||
| of transnational cartels into the state; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the U.S. Congress | ||
| recognize its obligation under the U.S. Constitution to "provide | ||
| for the common defense" by voting to deploy U.S. military forces to | ||
| combat transnational cartels; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Legislature demand that the federal | ||
| government allocate more financial support to Texas' border | ||
| security wall and reimburse Texas for past expenditures on security | ||
| efforts to repel invaders at its Southern Border; and, be it further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas Secretary of State forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, to | ||
| the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all members | ||
| of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this | ||
| resolution be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
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