The clash between the Biden administration and Texas spilled out into the open last week

with the US Supreme Court ruled that federal authorities could remove razor wire that Texas that

Texas Governor Greg Abbott had been installing along the border

with Mexico to stop the millions of illegal immigrants from crossing over to the United States.

This time Abbott did not back down.

Instead he issued a statement declaring that an invasion under Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution

is underway and invoking Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself.

Here, Governor Abbott answers an important question I brought up back in my 1988 U.S. presidential run.

At what point do open borders and mass illegal immigration

into the United States become an invasion, which would grant governors the authority and obligation to take action.

By some estimates, more than 6 million illegal immigrants have crossed into the United States during the three years

of the Biden administration.

These illegals likely mostly came from Mexico and Central America, but the fact is we have no idea how many of

them may be arriving from, for example, the Middle East or other war-torn areas of the world.

Last month, even the New York Times wrote of the disaster on the U.S US border that thousands of migrants are arriving at the border every day,

trekking from the furthest reaches of the globe, from Africa to Asia to South America driven by relentless

violence, desperation and poverty. With the world of blush in US weapons it's not hard to imagine the danger of the

situation. It is a problem that the Biden administration is not willing to

tackle likely for political reasons

particularly in an election year and Biden found an ally in the US Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts with the ruling

that federal agents may begin removing barriers set up by Texas authorities.

But the intensity of the dispute were set up by Texas authorities.

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