88R8190 TBO-F
	By: Dorazio	H.C.R. No. 79

	CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
	WHEREAS, The State of Texas and the United States federal
	government are charged with protecting 1,254 miles of land along
	Texas' border with Mexico, a job that has become increasingly
	violent as this state has succumbed 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 attempted 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 weapons,
	all related to the invasion of 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 of border patrol agents and the deployment of
	National Guard troops; 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 inability of the federal government to develop a
	comprehensive plan that would address this border security problem
	puts an unfair and unreasonable burden on the entire state, but in
	particular on Texas border communities; and
	WHEREAS, Under Article I, Section 10 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
	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 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 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.