By Douglas V. Gibbs
Donald Trump rose to political notoriety in 2015 when he exclaimed that America needs a border wall and that it was his plan to enforce immigration laws as they exist on the books. A process exists, and if an immigrant would like to be a part of America, they need to follow the law, the protocols, and assimilate into American culture.
Kamala Harris ran for President of the United States during the 2020 Presidential Election Season, and during that campaign, and since then, she has repeatedly called for open borders, and she has proclaimed that illegal aliens “should not be treated like criminals.” As Vice President she supported Biden’s decision to reverse all of Trump’s immigration executive orders, and falsely claimed that the border crisis during the Biden years was the fault of Congress and that the Biden administration was simply waiting for an appropriate piece of legislation to be passed by Congress (but Trump and his GOP allies were magically blocking the creation of “common sense immigration legislation”).
Since reversing almost all of Trump’s policies on immigration during the first day of his presidency, halting the construction of the Mexican border wall, and ending Trump’s travel ban restricting travel from 14 countries the border crisis has gone from a flood of illegal immigrants to a flood of America-hating people from countries who wish to see America destroyed. The issue has gone from an immigration crisis to a national security disaster. Enemies of America, along with a vast criminal element, have entered the United States without any obstacles. When illegal aliens have been arrested, they have been freed so that they can break the law again. Deportation has been nearly extinguished. Americans, many of them women and children, have died at the hands of murderers who are in the country illegally, many of whom were apprehended and then let go by local law enforcement in Sanctuary States or Cities. While the Democrats claim illegal aliens are simply desperate people or families simply looking for a better life, the reality is that the Democrats are using illegal immigration to import voters, and create instability because when there is chaos there is need for tighter government control.
Donald Trump, however, has voiced over and over that mixed into the population entering this country illegally there are people who are not simply “immigrants” who failed to use the proper immigration process looking for a better life. Many of them are enemies of America from places like China, Venezuela, Haiti, Africa and the Middle East. Terrorists, criminals, gang members and hostile foreign agents are all represented in the numbers crossing our borders. While the Democrats play the “We Are The World” and “We Are All One Global Village” cards from their deck of insanity, we are being invaded by enemies who seek to destroy the United States. Then again, destruction of America as it was founded is the goal of the Democrats, as well.
Ideological positions regarding the border issue, and whether or not federal immigration laws should be enforced, have pit Republicans against Democrats, and a number of other groups against their own opposition. That’s the way the leftist progressive commies like it. Division is good for the development of tyranny. Division and chaos must be met with government force, eventually; and that’s the way the leftwing purveyors of authoritarianism and socialism like it. It sets the stage for their complete takeover nicely.
The Founding Fathers realized that migration was an issue that would need to be addressed by the federal government, specifically when it came to who to prohibit from entering the country. That is why in Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution the mention of migration is about prohibiting certain persons from entering the country, rather than throwing the door wide open. The issue of migration was mixed into the same clause that provided for Congress the opportunity to outlaw the Atlantic Slave Trade as of 1808. The migration of slaves by land, and the migration of unwanted persons through the same corridors, were a concern that, prior to the clause going into effect, was a State issue. Be it the unwanted importation of slaves from Africa, or the migration of persons who held ideas that were in opposition to American ideals, the Founding Fathers wanted Congress to have the authority to write laws prohibiting those people from entering the country.
The clause reads (emphasis added by me):
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight.”
Article I, Section 8 establishes naturalization as a federal authority.
Between the two clauses the federal government through Congress holds the authority to make laws regarding immigration, and naturalization.
Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution tasks the federal government with protecting each of the States from Invasion, which establishes that it is the federal government’s job to secure the border (especially when the danger of enemy combatants entering the country is a reality).
Congress has on the books federal laws regarding immigration, naturalization and border security as instructed by the Constitution.
The part of the federal government tasked with carrying out those laws is the executive branch.
In Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution the President is tasked with taking “Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.”
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, has failed to carry out the law – a direct violation of the clause in Article II, Section 3 of the United States Constitution. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas faced impeachment over failing to carry out immigration laws (for some reason they did not see fit to impeach Biden over the failure). Kamala Harris, as Vice President of the United States, supported (and was an accomplice) President Biden’s administration’s failure to execute immigration law. The Democrats, unlike Trump, have violated the Constitution through their refusal to carry out the immigration laws and border security laws already in place.
Harris’s running mate, Tim Walz, also has unconstitutional blood on his hands.
While States do have certain concurrent powers regarding illegal immigration (to protect their States the leadership of each State may use their law enforcement to detain illegal aliens, but it is their legal obligation to turn those detainees over to the federal government for deportation), their laws and actions (or inactions) may not be contrary to federal law on the issue of immigration (since immigration is a federal authority) – Article VI of the Constitution . State laws contrary to federal law, or laws that would hinder the federal government from carrying into execution federal immigration laws on the books, would be (and are) unconstitutional…and when I say “unconstitutional,” I mean “illegal.”
As Governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz signed laws making Minnesota a Sanctuary State. In California, as Attorney General, Kamala Harris helped enforce California’s sanctuary state laws, as well as serve as a prosecutor in cases tied to those laws.
Sanctuary State Laws disallow state and local law enforcement from communicating with federal agencies when illegal aliens are detained. The laws also disallow local law enforcement from even establishing that the detainee is an illegal alien in the first place through questioning, or looking up the person’s legal status. Those laws are in clear violation of the Supremacy Clause and the constitutional provision that states may not make laws that are contrary to constitutionally authorized federal laws (Article VI). So, when it comes to the illegal alien issue, Walz and Harris are not new at their game of violating the Constitution. The illegal actions by the Democratic candidates for President and Vice President of the United States go all the way back to their time in state office.
Trump, meanwhile, nails the immigration issue constitutionally as expected. His policies regarding immigration are on target, what’s best for America, and they are constitutional.
Kamala and Tim Walz, meanwhile, stand in a camp of unconstitutionality… a position they are proud of, and a position they will continue to strangle America with should they wind up in the two highest offices of the United States executive branch, should they win election in November.
Dangerous, unconstitutional, and treasonous; Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are not only a pair whose policies are not good for America, if unleashed in the White House they will destroy America and not give a care as they sink our country into chaos and death.
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