Biden Admin Threatens to Sue Texas Unless Lone Star State ‘Agrees to Refrain from Enforcing the Law’

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We call them “states’ rights,” but that makes no sense.

States do not have rights. Only people have rights. And the sovereign people of the states have the right to defend themselves when their criminally negligent federal government refuses to do so.

On Thursday, we learned that the Department of Justice disagrees.

In a letter to Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. Boynton objected to a new Texas law designed to combat illegal immigration and threatened to sue the state “unless Texas agrees to refrain from enforcing the law.”

Senate Bill 4, set to take effect on March 5, will make illegal entry from Mexico into Texas a state crime. By definition, illegal entry into the U.S. already constitutes a federal crime.

Under the new law, Texas police will have the authority to arrest illegal immigrants.

Boynton challenged SB 4 on the grounds that it interferes in an exclusive domain of the federal government, namely immigration enforcement.

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