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Yet monies were funded by congress in the billions to fight useless wars. There is a lot of waste in government spending all over the spectrum. We are spending billions on illegal aliens year after year but we don't have the monies to deport them? It's not a matter of not having the monies or the right to enforce our immigration laws it's a lack of will by the powers that be. I think you're right Obama would do what he is doing no matter what. Funny how in past administrations illegal aliens were deported. Did they not have the money nor the right to do so? I laugh at the lame arguments in here for not enforcing our immigration laws. These pro-illegals use every excuse in the book. Why have immigration laws if no one in our government has the right to enforce them no matter what they claim the reason for it is.
Actually it would have been cheap in 1988...but there was no will to do it.
Now it is virtually undoable even if we wanted to do it...and we still don't want to.
The only things the antis are able to do is protect the status quo which is the worst outcome.
The status quo is better than giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens once again while we have millions of unemployed Americans. Amnesty will just encourage more to come trying to get in on the next amnesty. When does it end?
All we need to do is implement e-verify in every workplace, deny benefits to them and birthright citizenship for their kids. Most would leave on their own and it would discourage more to come. It's really that simple.
The status quo is better than giving amnesty to millions of illegal aliens once again while we have millions of unemployed Americans. Amnesty will just encourage more to come trying to get in on the next amnesty. When does it end?
All we need to do is implement e-verify in every workplace, deny benefits to them and birthright citizenship for their kids. Most would leave on their own and it would discourage more to come. It's really that simple.
Yes it is that simple. All you need is a set of quite impossible actions including a Constitutional amendment, Reality is a problem that cannot be evaded by ignoring it.
I don't think you understand what I am saying. The bolded part is the crux of the issue. At the federal level President Obama and under him attorney general Holder, and secretary Jeh Johnson ARE the chief law enforcement officers for the federal government as far as immigration. The Constitution has a separation of powers at the federal level between the 3 branches of government and the executive branch is the enforcement branch and like all executive related offices they have discretion in which crimes they target and whom they choose to prosecute. The courts have no say in this because they are the courts and their job is to handle the process post charging and arrest.
In essence at the federal level President Obama is the head of federal law enforcement. While you might not like it, that is not a constitutional problem that is a political issue.
Now you could argue that state governments can start doing their own immigration policy and enforcement and you would be wrong because of something called federal preemption which is a supremacy clause issue.
Its all perfectly Constitutional.
Be s kind as to show where in the constitution this is listed. It was added on to bolster political power and to my knowledge has never been contest in court. So you really do not know if it is "perfectly Constitutional". That is just one more of your wishes.
Be s kind as to show where in the constitution this is listed. It was added on to bolster political power and to my knowledge has never been contest in court. So you really do not know if it is "perfectly Constitutional". That is just one more of your wishes.
That would be article six clause 2.
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Where the federal government has valid law making power states cannot make contradictory laws as those contradictory laws are considered preempted by federal law.
Now if you have doubts about immigration being a valid subject of federal law making I would refer you to Art 1 sec. 8 where it says congress has power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
It has also been litigated in court time and time again.. Specifically in terms of immigration it was just litigated in the case of Arizona v. US (2012)
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding."
Where the federal government has valid law making power states cannot make contradictory laws as those contradictory laws are considered preempted by federal law.
Now if you have doubts about immigration being a valid subject of federal law making I would refer you to Art 1 sec. 8 where it says congress has power to establish a uniform rule of naturalization.
It has also been litigated in court time and time again.. Specifically in terms of immigration it was just litigated in the case of Arizona v. US (2012)
The Arizona laws SB1070 mirrored federal law. So the state didn't pre-empt federal laws.
The Arizona laws SB1070 mirrored federal law. So the state didn't pre-empt federal laws.
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The Supreme court disagreed.
As it was instructed to do by this administration. IMO.
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It's not a matter of not having the monies or the right to enforce our immigration laws it's a lack of will by the powers that be. I think you're right Obama would do what he is doing no matter what. Funny how in past administrations illegal aliens were deported. Did they not have the money nor the right to do so? I laugh at the lame arguments in here for not enforcing our immigration laws. These pro-illegals use every excuse in the book. Why have immigration laws if no one in our government has the right to enforce them no matter what they claim the reason for it is.
