DeSantis stands with Abbott amid border standoff with feds

Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday vowed that the Sunshine State would continue to support Texas as it pursues unilateral border enforcement actions and provokes the legal ire of Washington.

Following the Supreme Court's decision this week to permit federal agents to cut through a razor wire fence that Texas installed along the Rio Grande, Abbott vowed that Texas would pursue its right to self-defense amid the border surge, a right he said "supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

DeSantis, for his part, concurred with Abbott and further excoriated the Biden administration's handling of the issue.

"If the Constitution really made states powerless to defend themselves against an invasion, it wouldn’t have been ratified in the first place and Texas would have never joined the union when it did," DeSantis posted on X. "TX is upholding the law while Biden is flouting it. FL will keep assisting Texas with personnel and assets."

Florida has aided Texas's efforts in part by providing its National Guardsmen to aid in Operation Lone Star, Texas's border security effort organized amid perceived federal apathy toward the rise in illegal crossings.

Abbott on Wednesday asserted that Biden had "violated his oath to faithfully execute immigration laws enacted by Congress."

The Supreme Court decision did not address the merits of the razor wire deployment, but merely lifted the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals' injunction against cutting the wire. The case itself is still before the appeals court.

Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X, formerly Twitter.