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A large group of Republican governors has issued a joint statement voicing "solidarity" with Texas Governor Greg Abbott and his stepped-up border protections, accusing the White House of leaving the country "completely vulnerable" amid an influx of illegal migrants.

Published on Thursday, the open letter was signed by 25 GOP governors across the country, with Vermont Governor Phil Scott the sole Republican to leave his signature off the message.

The state leaders were highly critical of President Joe Biden, who they said had "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."

"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," the letter continued. "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."

Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley argued Friday that the federal government has the "upper hand" in the ongoing showdown between Texas and the Biden administration.

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Turley first began by arguing that the open border crisis is a "violation of the understanding between the federal government and the states," adding the federal government has not "fulfilled its pledge."

"The problem is that federal courts are unlikely to agree that this is the 'invasion' referenced in the Constitution. There's also a reference to 'imminent danger' and certainly looking at hundreds of thousands of people crossing, an effectively, open border presents an imminent danger, but the courts are likely to define that in the context of that provision in the context of an invasion by - as with a foreign state. So I think Texas is going to have a hard time making that constitutional argument in court," Turley said.

The law professor added while judges may be sympathetic to Texas being overwhelmed by migrants, "the federal government has the upper hand legally. They tend to get a lot of deference along the border."

Turley said while he understands that Texans see the mass migration as an imminent danger to the state, the "problem" is that the court will disagree.

"The courts are likely to say that lax enforcement has been a problem all along, there's been a problem with people crossing that border, and that this provision was really written at a time when those border states were in constant danger of an actual invasion by a foreign power. So that's the reason I think Texas will have a hard time threading this needle in federal court. But that does not relieve the Biden Administration politically or even legally as Texas invokes its other authority as a state power to protect its citizens. Its citizens are at risk."

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