88S30282 KSM-F
 
  By: Schaefer H.C.R. No. 21
 
 
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
         WHEREAS, The State of Texas and the United States federal
  government have 1,254 miles of land to protect along Texas' border
  with Mexico, a job that has become increasingly violent as this
  state has been subjected to an invasion by foreign drug cartels; and
         WHEREAS, These foreign drug cartels bring terror to Texas
  communities by flooding the streets with deadly narcotics, forcing
  women and children into human and sex trafficking, enriching
  themselves on the misery and enslavement of Texans, and butchering
  and murdering anyone who tries to stop them; and
         WHEREAS, State and local law enforcement agencies are forced
  to contend with extensive and dangerous criminal activity resulting
  from, or associated with, foreign drug cartels, thereby putting
  Texas law enforcement officials in danger and draining resources
  away from protecting our communities; and
         WHEREAS, The State of Texas has acted to address the problem
  by adding hundreds of commissioned law enforcement officers to the
  border, purchasing state-of-the-art helicopters, conducting border
  security surge operations, and paying millions of dollars for
  overtime, training, equipment, and technology for local law
  enforcement; and
         WHEREAS, Law enforcement agencies working together in Texas
  have seized billions of dollars in illegal drugs and hundreds of
  millions in cash, along with thousands of firearms and other
  weapons, all related to the invasion of foreign drug cartels; and
         WHEREAS, Texas has repeatedly asked the federal government to
  send more border security resources to the state, requesting an
  increase in manpower and authority for border patrol agents and
  other federal personnel; and
         WHEREAS, Texas prisons house violent offenders that claim
  foreign citizenship, and the state bears the cost of housing and
  prosecuting those offenders; and
         WHEREAS, Texas taxpayers have spent billions compensating
  for the lack of federal resources provided to the state; and
         WHEREAS, The federal government's failure to develop a
  comprehensive plan to address this border security problem puts an
  unfair and unreasonable burden on the entire state, especially on
  Texas border communities, in violation of Article IV, Section 4 of
  the United States Constitution; and
         WHEREAS, Under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United
  States Constitution, Texas is entitled as a sovereign state of the
  United States of America to protect itself against this current
  foreign drug cartel invasion; this constitutional authority grants
  the State of Texas the power to defend the state when the state has
  been invaded or is "in such imminent Danger as will not admit of
  delay"; and
         WHEREAS, The governor, in a letter to the president of the
  United States on November 16, 2022, invoked the authority under
  Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution, to protect
  the State of Texas; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas,
  3rd Called Session, hereby demand the federal government to
  immediately declare violent foreign drug cartels as foreign
  terrorist organizations under Section 219 of the Immigration and
  Nationality Act, 8 U.S.C. § 1189; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby find that the
  State of Texas has been invaded by foreign drug cartels and that the
  citizens of this state are in imminent danger of irreparable harm;
  and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature hereby encourage all
  applicable state and local resources as needed, to use any and all
  authority under Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States
  Constitution to repel this violent foreign drug cartel invasion,
  and that such authority should be invoked with the intention of
  utilizing such authority in the most peaceful manner possible
  consistent with bringing this invasion to a conclusion at the
  earliest possible moment.