"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."
"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."
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, glad-handing, 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.
Thanks for your open letter - I copied it and sent it (with a couple of slight revisions) to Lamar Smith. I know that he’s on the right side (no pun intended) of this question, but let him know in no uncertain terms that my vote, and that of my (formerly Mexican, now citizen) wife are not a lock for him or anyone else in the GOP if this POS bill gets passed with any GOP help. I made it clear that either a comprehensive bill or some piecemeal POS that did the same thing after some legislative shenanigans would be the end of the GOP.
I hope it works - but many tens of thousands of us have to write to or call Congress SOON to do anything about this.