An open letter to the GOP Members of the House
As a Representative in Congress, you are this Oath:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."
"Support and defend" the Constitution." That document requires, per Art.4, S.4, that
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."
An invasion is what we are suffering. That invasion has accelerated with each "comprehensive immigration reform" previously enacted. Instead of another disasterous reform that increases the incentives for millions more to try their luck crossing the southern border, a Representative who took his Oath and the Constitution seriously would be pressing for what the American people have repeatedly said they want -
not what Senator Schumer, Mexico or some border state farmers and homebuilders want. That is:
- secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
- end the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment;
- enforce eVerify without exception and with severe penalties;
- no government benefits beyond critical emergency care (and that ought to be billed back to the Mexican government); and
- NO "Path to Citizenship" for anyone who has entered the US illegally.
Any bill that does not accomplish these five things is unacceptable. It is de facto amnesty.
If the GOP is complicit in this amnesty fiasco, either by taking up the Senate bill or through some piecemeal slight of hand with a series of House bills such as we hear are being cooked up this week, the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, gladhanding, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.
Any bill that does not accomplish these five things is unacceptable. It is de facto amnesty. Any bill that allows the lawbreakers to stay and work here--the object of their crime--is amnesty. A path to citizenship is just the cherry on top.
We also need to drastically reduce legal immigration. We don't need 1.2 million legal immigrants a year, most of whom are poor and uneducated.