🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Tennessee Governor Bill Lee on X:

🔶️ "The federal government’s failure to secure our nation’s southern border is jeopardizing the safety of all Americans. Tennessee has always stood with Texas, and we always will."

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 West Virginia Governor Jim Justice on X:

🔶️ "We have a terrible crisis at the Southern Border."

🔶️ "The Biden Administration has turned every state into a border state. We must stop the flow of fentanyl, human trafficking, and criminal activity and secure our border."

🔶️ "We support Greg Abbott and the State of Texas."

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 Just a reminder that the US Capitol building defends itself with walls and razor wire... but Texas isn't allowed to do the same on the southern border.

📎 Tim Young

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 25 Republican governors released the following joint statement in support of Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense.

⬛️ The statement comes as the Biden Administration continues to attack Texas and refuses to take action or responsibility for the crisis at the Southern border.

🔶️ “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.

🔶️ “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. We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country 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 include: 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 Bill Lee (TN), Governor Spencer Cox (UT), Governor Glenn Youngkin (VA), Governor Jim Justice (WV), and Governor Mark Gordon (WY).

https://www.rga.org/republican-governors-ban-together-issue-joint-statement-supporting-texas-constitutional-right-self-defense/

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 🇺🇸❓ Final map, it's all Republican Governors minus Vermont.

📎 ashtaarot

📝 Kansas and North Carolina are Republican states with Democratic Governors. It’s worth watching what their State Legislatures do going forward.

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 Federal government says the razor wire has to go, “Texas Governor says he WILL NOT.”

The federal government has given Texas a deadline of tomorrow to comply..

There’s been multiple calls for the Biden Administration to federalize the national guard..

📎 Chuck Callesto

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 If we include Texas itself, that's 26 states supporting Texas. Plus a full statement of support from Trump, who is leading in the polls.

Where this may matter most in the coming days is if Biden attempts to federalize the National Guards.

Trying to overrule one governor is one thing. Trying to overrule more than half the country standing in formal support is something else altogether.

📎 Labrador Skeptic

🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 Greg Abbott Urged To 'Fully Militarize' Texas State Guard To Counter Biden

A leading Texan nationalist has urged Governor Greg Abbott to dramatically expand and militarize the Texas State Guard if President Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard, as some Democrats are demanding, in response to the ongoing border crisis.

Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Daniel Miller, president of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM) which campaigns for the Lone Star State to declare independence from the U.S., called on Abbott to radically expand the State Guard and place them along the Mexican border if the National Guard is federalized.

He said: "If Biden federalizes the Texas National Guard, Greg Abbott should immediately throw enlistment in the Texas State Guard WIDE OPEN, fully militarize them, and deploy them as a Border Protection Force along the entire border."

📎 Newsweek

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇺🇸 “When a state governor uses the national guard to eject federal agents, invoked the constitution to declare an invasion, ignoring a supreme court decision in the process, and the 2024 presidential election favorite is openly calling for states to disobey the federal government.”

📎 Sword Mercury

🇺🇸 🇺🇸 New bill could allow Florida State Guard be sent to Texas to help with the border, lawmaker says

A bill seeking to revise certain aspects of the Florida State Guard contains a provision that would allow for the agency to operate outside of the state’s borders. Rep. Mike Giallombardo, R-Cape Coral, sponsored the legislation, HB 1551, and explained the details of it during a Tuesday meeting of the House Subcommittee on Local Administration, Federal Affairs, and Special Districts, where it ultimately passed 11-3.

Rep. Dan Daley, D-Coral Springs, questioned if the guard could then be sent to the U.S-Mexico border if a border state, such as Texas, had an agreement with Florida.
Giallombardo responded, saying that “yes,” that could in fact happen.

Besides the expansion of potential geographical space to cover, the bill provides the state guard the same legal protections and immunities that the National Guard receives.

📎 Florida’s Voice