GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Sunday walked back a previous comment that Texas could secede from the U.S. if the state chose to do so, amid the state’s disagreement with the federal government about securing Texas’ border with Mexico.

“According to the Constitution, they can’t,” Haley said on CNN.

Texas is trying to take charge of border security amid record illegal immigration, which the administration of Texas GOP Gov. Greg Abbott says the federal government no longer has control.

The Biden administration says only the federal government can perform border security.

The Supreme Court last week ordered Texas to allow federal border agents access to the state’s border with Mexico, where Texas officials have deployed miles of razor wire wire – effectively upholding longstanding court rulings that the Constitution gives the federal government sole responsibility for border security.

Haley also said Sunday: “What I do think [Texas officials] have the right to do is have the power to protect themselves and do all that. Texas has talked about seceding for a long time. The Constitution doesn’t allow for that. … Where’s that coming from? That’s coming from the fact that people don’t think that government is listening to them.”

Her comments mark a turnaround from remarks she made last week, when Haley told radio host Charlemagne that God that “if Texas decides they want to do that, they can do that.”

“If that whole state says ‘We don’t want to be part of America anymore,’ I mean that’s their decision to make,” Haley also said, according to CNN.  aid on “The Breakfast Club.”