Texas border counties declare 'invasion' on Texas-Mexico border

BRACKETVILLE, Texas - Kinney County Texas declared a local state of disaster on Tuesday. Officials say they are being invaded by migrants coming across the Texas-Mexico border.

The declaration filed Tuesday by Kinney County Judge Tully Shahan declares that what is going on at the border an “invasion” as defined by the US and Texas constitutions and requests assistance from President Biden and Governor Abbott immediately.

Kinney County sheriff Brad Coe said the county is being inundated with migrants walking across the border unobstructed by border patrol or DPS troopers. Coe and the other three sheriffs in attendance said this is not sustainable for them, their budgets, or their small police forces.

“Our numbers are going to triple” Coe said. “We cannot sustain this kind of invasion”

Congressman Chip Roy, R-District 21, was also in attendance and says the federal government is failing, so it is time for Texas to step up even more.

“We should’ve cleared an invasion we should, as Texas, turn people away and do what is necessary to secure our communities,” Roy said.

Former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli says this is the first time in history that a judge has found as a matter of law that the US is being invaded. The former attorney general says the Governor needs to accept this declaration of invasion and wage war against immigration by turning people away at the border with DPS troopers.

“That states a number of thing states cannot do,” Cuccinelli said. “One of them is Wage War, not surprisingly but there is an exception an exception is when you were actually invaded. That’s been there since the beginning of the constitution. The states reserved those rights to themselves. They decide that question. The state decides, and that means the governor.”

Kinney is not the only county doing this. According to officials, Uvalde, Terrell, Burnet, Goliad, DeMitt and Medina Counties have or are considering doing the same thing as Kinney did today. Judge Shahan says every border county should declare an invasion.