If Cain’s serious, this is going to hurt him and I’d be badly disappointed. It’s almost like Perry with his checkered background looks better. Perrywinkles may yet prevail, if for the wrong reasons.
It is the constitutionally spelled out duty of the Federal government to defend the states from invasion. Maybe Cain would want to allow a state to not complain about illegale “invasion” and for the Federal government to look the other way, but really, all a state needs to do is complain (it need not even bother to try to mount its own defense) and the constitutional onus is on Uncle Sam. Also, there aren’t any walls between states. Jose can saunter into Texas from Mexico and from there go to any of the other lower 48 without anyone asking so much as a by your leave. Texas might not care, but how about Utah? Or Oklahoma? Don’t they have a right to complain about what riffraff waltzed into Texas, even if Texas does not care?
Once again, the reporter has taken the least clear part of Cain’s statements and run with that, rather than including the whole context so that Cain’s point would be clear. The better headline to summarize what Cain actually said is, “Cain Wants Current Immigration Law Obeyed - by Feds and States”.
He’s not saying that states should be able to make up their own policy. He’s saying that the feds should enforce the current laws (which DON’T include amnesty), but if they won’t, then the states should be able to do so, as a check to keep the feds under the rule of law. He’s saying that the border should be closed and the process for LEGAL immigration be made more streamlined so people have a real and practical means to come here LEGALLY, and to become American citizens the right way.