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.