Texas Has 10 Weeks to Stop a Sanctuary-State Power Grab

Well, the Democrat mayor is being honest about some things, and he's being dishonest about some things. He is being honest in that Houston, now a sanctuary city for illegals, he says he thinks that's going to be the model for big states across Texas. That's probably true in light of the bloodbath that Republicans took Tuesday night, but where he's being absolutely dishonest. Okay, the Democrat mayor of Houston is saying that public safety is his number one priority. Now, let me cut through that BS. The Democrats' top priority is not public safety. It's lawlessness and unchecked, wide-open borders and massive, maximal illegal immigration. They want to do as much damage. To the state of Texas and therefore America, because think about the impact of our electoral prospects, among other things, impact on public health, our economy by having unchecked illegal immigration. That's what. They want they are insistent and intent on doing as much damage and destruction to the Lone Star State as they possibly can over the next four years. And here's the problem. Mayors like that open border mayors are going to have the full support of the governor, the lieutenant governor and the attorney general in the state of Texas. And it's bad enough that we're going to have a Democrat attorney general that is almost certain to not enforce. Our anti-sanctuary city laws or our border security laws, it may not even come to that. Because right now, if these cities violate our anti-immigration or anti-border or anti-sanctuary city laws, there's big penalties affixed to that. But the problem is, unless we limit the governor's executive powers, she can just waive the law. She can erase those laws off the books arbitrarily, capriciously. By a whim, simply by signing a gubernatorial. Mayor Houston signed an executive order for the city. There's nothing stopping the governor of Texas from signing an executive order and with the stroke of a pen. Governor Abbott could turn Texas into not just a sanctuary city, but arguably the biggest sanctuary state, the biggest sanctuary state in America. And that's why, like, I know at the risk of putting too fine a point on this, Greg Abbott and the rest of the rest of the Republican leadership, they got wiped out on Tuesday. I mean, two things. One, we need to focus and think about why they got wiped out. Maybe it was a failure of their promises to do their job that they promised. But also, you're not gone yet, Governor. My colleagues in the Texas House, you're not gone yet. The Democrats were elected Tuesday, but they weren't sworn in. We have 10 more weeks where the Constitution that we took an oath to uphold and the people demand and deserve that we continue governing every minute we're here. And every minute we're here, every day that we're here, every hour we're here. We should use every lawful and constitutional tool at our disposal to limit the amount of damage and destruction that the Democrats are able to perpetrate on the state of Texas. For the next four years, and that's why I continue to call on the governor to as much as I enjoy talking with you in the posse this morning, my butt and my colleagues butts should be being dragged back to the Texas Capitol so that we can do a lot of things. But number one, most important, we need to limit the governor's emergency powers because under our Texas unconstitutional emergency powers laws, the governor, whenever she declares an emergency and she can declare an emergency for anything, including the border, including energy, she can write any law, she can remove any law, she can change any law by edict. And it's absolutely tyrannical. She will inherit if we don't act. All the powers of a dictator, and by the way, this isn't just hyperbole. It's not exaggeratory. I'm not being hyperbolic here. I'm repeating Governor-elect Leticia Hinojosa's own words. She just announced within the last day that on her first day in office, one of her first actions is going to be to utilize unconstitutional emergency powers to start fixing prices. Price fixing is on its way to Lone Star State if Texas Republicans don't act to limit her ability. To behave like a dictator.