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'Take Our Border Back' Convoy Heading to Texas Next Week

'It would take over 700,000 vehicles to line the border.'

Published: January 26, 2024
  |   By Cassandra MacDonald
'Take Our Border Back' Convoy Heading to Texas Next Week

Retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel Pete Chambers has organized a "Take Back Our Border" convoy heading to Eagle Pass, Texas, next week.


A Telegram channel for the convoy already has over 1,300 people.

The website for the event states, "Calling all active & retired law enforcement and military, Veterans, Mama Bears, elected officials, business owners, ranchers, truckers, bikers, media and LAW ABIDING, freedom-loving Americans."

"Join US ~ The time is now for WE THE PEOPLE to PEACEFULLY assemble in honor of our Constitutional Rights. To call on our government to TAKE ACTION and SECURE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER," the website continues. "It would take over 700,000 vehicles to line the border. How amazing would that be!!!"


The convoy lists several meet-up points in Virginia, California, and Texas.

There will also be three rallies in Texas, California, and Arizona on February 3.

Texas State Rep. Keith Self shared an article about the convoy on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.


Tension has been escalating at the border since the Supreme Court ruled that the Biden administration can remove razor wire placed in Shelby Park by the state of Texas.

Shelby Park is a small but high-migrant traffic area along the border.

On Wednesday, Gov. Abbott issued a statement declaring that the state is being invaded.

The governor wrote that the Biden administration's failure to "protect each [State] against invasion," as stated in Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, "has triggered Article I, § 10, Clause 3," which reserves the state's "right of self-defense."

"For these reasons, I have already declared an invasion under Article I, § 10, Clause 3 to invoke Texas's constitutional authority to defend and protect itself," Gov. Abbott declared. "That authority is the supreme law of the land and supersedes any federal statutes to the contrary."

Abbott added that the "Texas National Guard, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and other Texas personnel are acting on that authority, as well as state law, to secure the Texas border."

On Thursday, 25 Republican governors signed a statement of support for Abbott.

“President Biden and his Administration have left Americans and our country completely vulnerable to unprecedented illegal immigration pouring across the Southern border. Instead of upholding the rule of law and securing the border, the Biden Administration has attacked and sued Texas for stepping up to protect American citizens from historic levels of illegal immigrants, deadly drugs like fentanyl, and terrorists entering our country," the letter read.

We stand in solidarity with our fellow Governor, Greg Abbott, and the State of Texas in utilizing every tool and strategy, including razor wire fences, to secure the border. We do it in part because the Biden Administration is refusing to enforce immigration laws already on the books and is illegally allowing mass parole across America of migrants who entered our country illegally.

The governors continued, “The authors of the U.S. Constitution made clear that in times like this, states have a right of self-defense, under Article 4, Section 4 and Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the U.S. Constitution. Because the Biden Administration has abdicated its constitutional compact duties to the states, Texas has every legal justification to protect the sovereignty of our states and our nation.”

Former President Donald Trump, the current Republican frontrunner for the presidential nomination, has also urged Republican governors to support Texas.

"We encourage all willing States to deploy their guards to Texas to prevent the entry of Illegals, and to remove them back across the Border," Trump wrote.

"All Americans should support the commonsense measures by Texas authorities to protect the Safety, Security, and Sovereignty of Texas, and of the American people," the former president continued.

Trump continued on to say that when he is president, on day one, he will work with Governor Abbott and other border states to "Stop the Invasion, Seal the Border, and Rapidly Begin the Largest Domestic Deportation Operation in History."

"Those Biden has let in should not get comfortable because they will be going home," Trump concluded.

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