I hope not as well, but do believe this country was formed with the concept of States being largely autonomous and sovereign of laws and policies in their own land.

While I believe that states must follow Constitutional federal laws, as the highest law in the land below the Constitution, I do not believe the federal government's persistent neglect and even nurturing of this severe mass migrant emergency, is ethical or Constitutional. I specially believe this about the constant demand of the federal government for states being critically overrun, to lay down and accept their state and citizen's mortal fate from the insurgency.

I don't believe the federal government's demand and position on this is legal, but instead I believe it is clearly inflicting damage on certain states, is responsible for a humanitarian disaster of historic proportion, and thoroughly motivated by corruption. This reeks of the corruption and Constitutional abuse, for which a state should, and must, stand up against, using every defense at their disposal. This includes, at the very extreme end, the right to defend its citizens and self from decimation, even if this tyrannical oppression is at the at the hands of our own corrupt federal government.

Creating or threatening to create mass migrations is a frequently used weapon of war. This is a weapon that has been wielded at, and also by, America many times in the past. They are the soldiers of attrition. Historically, mass migrations have been used as a weapon to cause coups, economic ruin, and to dilute an enemy's resources with a cheap war of attrition. Many famous instances have shown this risk as well as the risks of destruction from mass migration due to natural disasters and other unintentional causes. This includes notable times such as the fall of Rome, Jordan's threat of Palestinian migrants after the Six Day War, China's response to US President Carter's attempts to condition trade on human rights reforms, the US's backfired instigated mass migration of North Vietnamese after the 1st Indochina War, etc. The track record proves that historically, the tactic rarely fail. For the US, their stated intention was meant to put pressure on China, but the US was paying to support South Vietnam, and inadvertently increased their load.