Charlie Kirk: “Big failure” Gov. Abbott should ignore the feds and “mobilize 100,000 Texans” to secure southern border

Kirk: “This of course would trigger a constitutional crisis. Good.”

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From the July 27, 2023 edition of Salem Radio Network's The Charlie Kirk Show

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Look, I'll be honest, why has the Texas state government put up with this for so long? Ignore the Department of Justice, ignore the Department of Homeland Security, mobilize 100,000 Texans, figure it out. Texas rangers, give them weapons, give them handcuffs, helicopters, drones.

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Governor Abbott has been a big failure in this regard.

Kirk continued on his tirade after a commercial break.

From the July 27, 2023 edition of Salem Radio Network's The Charlie Kirk Show

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Texas should secure the border, the federal government will sue and maybe the judge rules against you, just ignore the judge. That's what the left does all the time. That's what they do with sanctuary cities. State sovereignty comes first, the states created the federal government, the federal government did not create the states.

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Texas was once its own sovereign country. They have to take care of themselves. If the federal government is actively betraying the needs, wants, and interests of Texas, Texas needs to go do what Texas needs to do.

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This of course would trigger a constitutional crisis. Good.

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If the federal government has now proven after two and a half years, two and a half years, do we not take matters into our own hands? We should.