Posted on 10/22/2014 12:33:13 PM PDT by yoe
(León Rodríguez) the new head of Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), recalled how he was put on the “wait list” and eventually denied admission to Georgetown Law School, where he spoke Tuesday.
He tried to persuade the school’s officials to let him in and was told he was lucky to be on a wait list. The story is a metaphor for immigration policy, he said.
“What we do in immigration policy is decide who we want to admit to the U.S. and who we don’t,” he said.
Now Rodríguez is heading Citizenship and Immigration Services, a part of the Department of Homeland Security.
“Looking back Georgetown, would you have admitted me? Would you have had different policies?” he said to chuckles from an audience attending an immigration law and policy conference.
Rodríguez’s agency will be front and center once President Barack Obama announces the executive action he’ll take on immigration. Obama said he would take executive action after the elections but before the end of the year.
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One major constitutional problem with USCIS is the following, imo. As mentioned in related threads, and regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitution's “uniform rule of naturalizaton” clause, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I, interpretations used to justify fedral immigraton policy, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.
In fact, note that Thomas Jefferson had indicated, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that immigration is uniquely a state power issue.
“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.
Another major constitutional problem with federal immigration laws is the following. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected government bureaucrats like those running USCIS (EPA, etc). And by delegating federal legislative powers to government agencies like USCIS, corrupt Congress is wrongly protecting the abuse of federal legislative / regulatory powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3.
So not only is Congress unconstitutonally delegating federal legislative powers non-elected government bureaucrats where so-called federal immigration policy is concerned, but Congress is delegating powers that the states have never delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution in the first place.
What a mess! :^(
I read an article the other day that said union membership is at a historic low level. Unions need members, dims need votes.
Yet the offshoring of precious manufacturing jobs to the turd world goes on unabated....
Doesn’t look like there will be much actual fighting, just some teeth gnashing and GOPE leaders telling us to get over it
Understood *~*...passing your excellent post #21, onto my list, hope everyone does the same...
CWII Spark Ping — They keep pushing, like someone dealing with constipation... I don’t think it’ll end well.
On the day after the GOP sweeps the Senate and House, Republican leaders should have a meeting with Obama and throw down the gauntlet. A mass executive amnesty will be met with immediate impeachment and all funding to implement the amnesty will be pulled. Obama would howl and bluster, play the race card and demonize the GOP, but they should stand their ground. Sadly I doubt the milquetoast GOP leadership will do anything even if Obama commits treason..
right on all counts
The SEIU maybe. But I'm betting half their rank and file is out of work now.
In 1777, John Rutledge, South Carolina member of the Continental Congress, ordered the Continental Army to drive the British Tories out of the state. The Tory traitors fled the state, and South Carolina became a patriot stronghold.
It’s time to drive the federal Tory fascists out of our states.
You armed mercenaries guarding the elite fascist DC criminals best start thinking real hard about how you’ll survive when the system collapses and your paychecks and benefits end. You will not be welcomed as American patriots.
Yup. Keep a list of all those involved; while the time may not be right yet (believe in the ballot box or not), it will be soon and none of those who pushed for this should be allowed to live comfortable lives while the rest of America burns.
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