While our Constitution clearly outlines that the Congress must make naturalization laws, the reality is that the People were to be citizens of their own respective states, not the united States.  As such, when someone did enter the US and go through naturalization, they would take up a residence in one of the states and for about the first hundred years of the existence of the US as a constitutional republic, the states were enforcing immigration law.  Then someone came along and said the feds should be doing that, and so, the feds have been in charge of immigration law and doing a terrible job at it.  Thus, states like Texas have tried to curb the invasion taking place across its borders.  Now, the treasonous Biden Administration, specifically the Department of InJustice, is suing Texas for seeking to uphold the law and repel the invasion.

Townhall reports:

The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Texas on Wednesday over its new law making illegal immigration a state crime. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said the state was left to “fend for itself” due to President Biden’s “deliberate inaction” on border security. 

“The goal of Senate Bill 4 is to stop the tidal wave of illegal entry into Texas,” Abbott said last month during a signing ceremony. “It creates a criminal offense for illegal entry into Texas from a foreign nation for repeat offenders, that creates the events of illegal reentry with a potential prison sentence term of up to 20 years.”

He added, “The bill provides a mechanism to order an illegal immigrant to return to the foreign nation from which they entered.”

DOJ alleges the law is unconstitutional, however.

“Texas cannot run its own immigration system,” DOJ states in the lawsuit. “Its efforts, through SB 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations.”

National Review added:

The bill authorizes state and local governments in Texas to arrest illegal aliens who cross the state’s border from Mexico between officially designated ports of entry. Under the law, those who unlawfully enter the U.S. can be charged with a state misdemeanor or felony depending on the degree of the offense. The legislation also authorizes state judges to deport illegal aliens back to Mexico if they see fit, rather than pursue prosecution under federal law.

Enacted to give Texas the power to combat the border crisis, SB 4 officially makes illegal immigration a state crime. As demonstrated by the lawsuit, the Biden administration isn’t pleased with Abbott taking matters of immigration enforcement into his own hands.

“Texas cannot run its own immigration system,” the suit reads. “Its efforts, through SB 4, intrude on the federal government’s exclusive authority to regulate the entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate the United States’ immigration operations and proceedings, and interfere with U.S. foreign relations. SB 4 is invalid and must be enjoined.”

Under the Supreme Court’s Arizona v. U.S. 2012 ruling, which the Justice Department’s filing cites, no state can create or implement immigration laws or policies that are preempted by federal law.

However, Abbott doesn’t seem to be shaken by the litigation.

“Biden sued me today because I signed a law making it illegal for an illegal immigrant to enter or attempt to enter Texas directly from a foreign nation. I like my chances,” Abbott posted on X, touting the fact that Texas is the only state “trying to stop illegal immigration” while the Biden administration lets in hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants.

In November, approximately 242,000 illegal immigrants were documented trying to cross the southern border. That number is expected to be much higher for December, which reportedly saw over 302,000 illegal migrant encounters, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection sources. CBP will release last month’s data sometime in January.

Texas must also deal with a lawsuit brought forward by the American Civil Liberties Union and two other progressive activist organizations, which are all suing the state over the same law.

The Justice Department is also involved in the legal battles attempting to remove Texas’s concertina-wire fencing and bouy barriers, the latter of which were ordered to be removed by a federal appeals court in early December. That order was subsequently dismissed a week later. The fights regarding the razor wire and floating barriers are still ongoing.

Article posted with permission from Sons of Liberty Media