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Bold Soultion: STATE Empowerment.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3228427/posts

Power 6 ...

6) State empowerment that endures perpetually but also includes an ‘emergency option’ for a ‘Border Czar’.

Targeted suspension of congressional rules for a multi-problem-solving constitutional amendment that empowers the states’ new Chief State Executive who can also, if empowered specifically through through super-majority state support via state legislators, appoint a term-limited ‘Border Czar’ who temporarily holds paramount authority in both a legal and constitutional sense to commandeer related federal executive branch authority with impunity, but only to focus strictly on border safety, illegal immigration, VISAs, and airport security. Only during our current controversy would this include a temporary power to correct flawed Obama policy regarding expedient amnesty measures even if it means that citizenship due to such expediency is later repealed.

Plain speech version ...

CSE [the term-limited ‘chief’ the states collectively agree upon]

1. Emergency Border Czar Option

If there is 2/3 super-majority support by the states, the CSE could appoint a ‘Border Czar’ who is term limited to three years.

The Border Czar could take control of all VISA policy, airport security, border security construction, border patrols, the Coast Guard, and any National Guard assistance which the governors might offer. With state assistance, the Border Czar could also commandeer or incentivize prison inmates and illegal immigrants to work for construction of detention camps and border safety infrastructure.

Such laborers may be subjected to any kind of tracking device the Czar wishes, they may be kept in line through any version of ‘Invisible Fence’ technology imaginable, they will earn merit points based in part on their work record, and they may be penalized for a poor work ethic according to the Czar’s discretion. No federal or state laws may interfere with such construction.

[The United Nations will scream bloody murder. But it’s high time that We the People tell the UN in no uncertain terms to ‘butt out’ of our affairs. And the EPA might be green on the outside, but its red on the inside and would meddle any way it could if permitted.]

And the Border Czar would hold complete authority over ICE and have the authority to arrest any politicians who make ‘safe haven’ announcements to welcome illegal immigrants. Conviction of ‘safe haven’ announcements would be a felony punished according to the CSE’s discretion, and conviction for that crime would require a petition signed by 2/3 of all state attorneys general.

No court room may call into question the Border Czar’s policy decisions unless such a policy is sited in the Czar’s impeachment-and-removal. The Czar’s authority is paramount regarding budgeting, personnel decisions, conviction of non-US-citizens and enforcement policies but may also be held to a high standard of morality by the CSE. The CSE may censure executive branch officials accordingly in support of the Czar, even for a ‘spirit of contrariness’ that appears to physically slow progress of the Czar’s constitutionally-valid objectives.

[It’s one thing for someone to make a negative remark. That’s just ‘free speech’. It’s quite another thing if a suspicious ‘bureaucratic snafu’ or contrary interpretation actually bogs down headway. And the best way to prevent such things is to give the CSE temporary subjective power that is as narrowly defined as possible.]

The only congressional authority of the the Czar should be a modified version of impeachment that prevents ‘hearing-harassment’ or even lengthy ‘impeachment trial harassment’ that would disrupt the Czar’s team. For example ...

“No impeachment hearing of the Czar may begin without a 2/3 super-majority vote in the Senate to initiate one. And the Czar as well as all of the Czar’s subordinates may testify during that hearing via web-conferencing which only lasts for two hours, once a week. Each witness of such a hearing schedules the time and date one week after each hearing subpoena. After the Senate hearing, the House may also initiate a hearing with a 2/3 ... [et cetera] “

[Really up to the states to deliberate, but you get the idea.]

Simple majority votes should not be an option for congress to ‘go after’ the Czar. Even for the House to impeach the czar it should require a 2/3 vote.

Most constitutional scholars prefer vague wording, but vagueness would be foolhardy in light of all the amnesty schemes we’ve been up against dating back to the 1990s. Most specifics could be put in a specified co-written manual {that the amendment briefly refers to} so that the Constitution is less cluttered. But to save time during a crisis, we could ‘cram’ the Constitution now with long amendments and then a future amendmentment shift most of the ‘clunky’ specifics to a manual that matches the wording perfectly.

One transitional clause [that can later be expunged] is giving the Czar authority to repeal recent citizenship that’s obtained through Obama’s current scheme.

To prevent federal meddling, the Border Czar should be immune from arrest, indictment, or lawsuits while serving. But a majority of states should be empowered to impeach and remove the Border Czar for any reason at any time. And perhaps the CSE could pardon the Border Czar, and also pardon anyone whose ‘safe border’ actions the Czar agrees with.

Note that the CSE’s censure authority will help ensure cooperation with the Border Czar and even punish contrariness toward the Border Czar. More about censure further down the thread. [Three censures triggers dileberation for impeachment-by-the-states.]