“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
In fact, regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitution's Supremacy Clause (Clause 2 of Article VI), the Supreme Court has historically clarified that powers not delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution are prohibited to the feds, the power to regulate immigration in this example.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
So what Obama really needs to do if he wants to support congressional reform on immigration within the framework of the Constitution as the Constitution requires him to do (ahem) is the following. Obama needs to lead Congress to propose an immigration amendment to the Constitution to the states. And if the states should choose to ratify Obama's amendment then Congress will have the constitutional authority that it needs to address immigration issues and Obama will be a hero.
THE FACTS ARE THESE: E/O'ing amnesty is othing but a huge smoke-screen to disguise the Dummycrats' massive 2014 voter fraud that is about to ensue.
Fed-up voters have the Dummycrats in their sites----so the Dum-Dums need a way to rationalize why they'll get re/elected. Watch for smug Dummy statements WRT the "Hispanic" vote.
The Dummies got the names of the swarmers already registered to vote---they'll send in ringers to vote the names on election day.
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Now I'm betting the border-jumpers are in no rush to get "legalized." They got a dam good thing going---cashing multiple US govt checks under several identities.
These agents of foreign govt's don't want that money pile messed up....... and neither do their foreign handlers.
The homeland govts are making a bundle via the swarmers' wire-transferred "remittances" (this is AKA as "money-laundering" US tax dollars).