BREAKING: 25 Republican Governors Stand With Abbott, Support Texas' Right To Defend Itself From Biden's Open Border Invasion

On Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) took a stand against the Biden administration by arguing that the state of Texas has the right to defend itself from the ongoing invasion currently underway along the Rio Grande as tens of thousands of migrants enter the Lone Star State each month. The governor laid out his argument in an open letter to the Biden administration. His courageous act has led 25 Republican governors to sign a joint statement that stands with Texas in its right to defend itself from the ongoing invasion at the southern border.

The states that signed on to the statement include Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and New Hampshire.

"President Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border. Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country," the governors wrote. "We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border."

"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," the 25 governors added.

In the governor's letter to the federal government, Abbott explained that the Biden administration has failed to fulfill its constitutional duty to protect the states. "The federal government has broken the compact between the United States and the States. The Executive Branch of the United States has a constitutional duty to enforce federal laws protecting States, including immigration laws on the books right now," Abbott began. "President Biden has refused to enforce those laws and has even violated them. The result is that he has smashed records for illegal immigration."

The governor went on to explain that President Biden has ignored Texas's demands to secure the border and follow federal law, thus forcing Abbott's hand. "James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the other visionaries who wrote the U.S. Constitution foresaw that States should not be left to the mercy of a lawless president who does nothing to stop external threats like cartels smuggling millions of illegal immigrants across the border," the Texas governor wrote, adding that Article IV, Section 4 promises that the federal government will protect the states from invasion and that Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 allows for the states to take action if the federal government fails to act.

Abbott's letter comes after the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 vote that the federal government has the authority to remove barriers placed along the border by the state of Texas that were meant to dissuade migrants from entering the United States illegally. The decision gives Border Patrol agents the authority to cut razor wire deployed by the Texas National Guard as a part of Gov. Abbott's Operation Lone Star. While the Supreme Court did lift the federal government's prohibition on cutting the razor wire, the actual merits of the case are still being considered in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Read the Republican governors' statement below:

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