Section 274 felonies under the federal Immigration and Nationality Act, INA 274A(a)(1)(A): A person (including a group of persons, business, organization, or local government) commits a federal felony when she or he:
* assists an alien s/he should reasonably know is illegally in the U.S. or who lacks employment authorization, by transporting, sheltering, or assisting him or her to obtain employment, or
* encourages that alien to remain in the U.S. by referring him or her to an employer or by acting as employer or agent for an employer in any way, or
* knowingly assists illegal aliens due to personal convictions.
Great post.
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Actually, this is a legally significant point. The Founding Fathers reasonable claims of tyranny by King George were used to legitimize the break with Great Britain. This was a legal principle used by the Dutch revolutionaries against 16th Century Spain. However the Dutch had made a stretch to the law, in that if your Sovereign had committed a FELONY against you, all oaths and homage were null and void. You could go so far as to legally engage in war against you former Sovereign, if you so chose.
The less extreme option of packing up and finding another Liege Lord willing to protect you obviously follows.
Please see T. Beza's monograph "Des Droits du Magistrats sur lieur Sujets" of circa 1574 (french is approximate). In it, Beza references the exact law in the libri feudorum on the legal consequences of felonious activity against you by the government you had owed loyalty to.
I have been furiously studying tonight wherever I can, both from the FEDERAL and ARIZONA LAW positions, the situation of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. The U.S Justice Department and the President, if he specifically ordered it as they have threatened, in the State of Arizona as a retaliation against Arizona Law, to defacto impede or ignore federal crimes brought to their attention, would in fact be guilty of the Felony of "Obstruction of Justice", which justifies an Article of Impeachment from the House Judiciary Committee (or from any member that fact), brought to the Full House, against the President of the United States.