So I was reading the U.S. Constitution this morning...really. I don't find it difficult to understand unlike liberal politicians, pundits and press. Anyway, I happened across Article 4, Section IV of the U.S. Constitution:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.
Now let's consider what is going in the states with illegal immigration, more specifically, what is going on in our border states with the Mexican drug cartels invading us wholesale. Arizona has become a war zone, invaded by both illegal immigrants, determined to break our laws, and Mexico's hardened, vicious criminals who use Al Qaeda as their inspiration.
As I have quoted, ad nauseum, 72% of illegal immigrants commit identity theft and then continue to commit fraud upon the American people by using that illegally obtained identity. Some 30% of those who illegally enter this county, and I'm going to guess it's remarkably higher than that, but I'm going with Sheriff Paul Babeu's stats on this, are already in the American criminal justice system and waltzing across the border to continue their illegal activities. Mexican drug cartels and gangs climb fences, tunnel under the border, walk across the border, some moving wholesale over and taking over American cities, such as the case of a Texas border city where the English language and the U.S. Constitution, no longer apply.
In response to the extreme invasion over her border, because the U.S. Federal government has violated the constitutional rights of the state of Arizona, they enacted Senate Bill 1070, and it was signed into law by Governor Jan Brewer. Which according to Article 1, Section X of the U.S. Constitution, enumerating what the states cannot do:
No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
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 were well within their rights to do. And while I'm thinking of it, every other state in the nation facing illegal immigrants in such huge numbers their welfare, healthcare and education programs are breaking under the burden, also have the right to enact legislation defending that state's right to do what is necessary to protect itself from invasion. Since the federal government has systematically denied every state it's constitutional right of defense, their lawsuit against Arizona's SB 1070 is completely constitutionally sound. They have violated no part of the U.S. Constitution and Barack Obama, Eric Holder and the U.S. government are completely disingenuous, not mention violating the U.S. Constitution, in filing a lawsuit against the state of Arizona.
Of course, all the attorneys involved in the case know all this, so I wonder why any judge hearing this case has given the federal government's case any legitimacy. It is federal posturing at its worse and a complete and utter waste of taxpayer money.
Oh right, Barack Obama is president. Wasting taxpayer money is his specialty.
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It nice to see someone else is reading the constitution...
ReplyDeleteLet's look at this from a different point of view.
First, there is the view that AZ is being somehow 'racist' with their 1070 law. And, that the law is 'mean spirited'. One point that many on the left take, is that in the 1800's there was a near constant flow of immigrants into the country, and there was no problem then.
That is correct.
However, there was also no tax dollars going to support social programs. No Social Security, no welfare, no unemployment, etc.
Those on the left will say that not doing those things for people is just plain mean and selfish.
This point of view is in line with the 'Nanny State' thinking. That is that the federal government will take care of all our needs. We will not have to worry over anything. We would just go to our government provided job, and work at our 'not strenuous or dangerous in any way' job that only lasts 6 hours a day and then go home to our government provided house with our government provided food waiting for us.
When those people came to America in the 1800's, they expected only the opportunity to work and the possibility provided by our Constitution, that they could seek out their own prosperity without undue governmental oppression.
Now, we have all of these programs that we as citizens pay into... demanded by law! If we don't pay into these programs, we become criminals and will wind up in jail. Try not paying your taxes for a while and see what happens.
The answer to all this is simple. Make citizenship easier to achieve. Let people who want to become citizens do so and let them start paying taxes. Stop all the government programs that are supporting and creating a poor class' of people. If the great society and the war on poverty that the dems started in the sixties and early seventies worked, then we would not have any poor. Clearly, throwing money at a problem is just not the answer.
And.. finally, when a state has armed militaristic incursions against it's law enforcement and the people of the state. Allow the state it's constitutional right to protect itself from this kind of invasion.
It's not those seeking citizenship we don't want. It's those who take from the American citizens and never give back to our society. That person has no business in America. That person does not want to see the American experiment succeed.