A Plan to Secure Border

Texas Tea Party Leaders Release Plan to Secure Border, Criticize Perry

The main authority for what Flemings’ group hopes the state will do is
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, which
states: "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty
of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into
any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or
engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as
will not admit of delay.” They want Perry to invoke the constitutional
authority and declare a state of imminent danger in Texas from what is
essentially an invasion of people streaming across our border.