Originally Posted by
Judy
I've been posting on this for awhile here, but people don't seem to be able to get their heads around it for some reason. We have a 14th Amendment that guarantees equal protection under the law, that means equal treatment under the law. That means especially equal treatment and equal protection under the law from the law. Because of the 14th Amendment, no Congress or State can pass laws that treat certain people better or worse than others. Our laws must apply equally to everyone.
An amnesty is meant to forgive those who broke a law before a law was changed. Take the draft amnesty as an example. Soldiers who dodged the draft and went to Canada were eventually given amnesty so they could come back home, AFTER the draft was repealed. If we hopefully some day end the War on Drugs by repealing those federal laws, an amnesty would be appropriate for those currently incarcerated or on parole or whatever, AFTER you repeal those laws. You wouldn't give an amnesty to drug laws while they're still in effect any more than you would give an amnesty for dodging the draft while a draft was still in effect.
But here with illegal aliens, just as the stupid Congress did in 1986, you are giving an amnesty to illegal aliens who violated US immigration law without first repealing the law, the laws continue to exist and are applied to everyone else. YOU CAN'T DO THAT. It's unconstitutional.
Makes you wonder about all the lawyers in Congress, doesn't it? Most of them are former prosecutors. Prosecutors who don't know the different between a honest legal amnesty after repealing a law and a discriminatory pile of crap that exempts certain groups from existing law still applied to everyone else in as blatant and bold a manner as "amnesty" for illegal aliens aren't exactly the right people to be in charge of the criminal justice system, let alone the US Congress.
And for anyone wondering, the answer is no, the US Congress does NOT have the authority to discriminate, it has the obligation to uphold our Constitution in all laws it passes. No branch of government has the authority to create special classes of people who are above the law, not the Courts, not the Congress, not the Executive Branch. They are all bound to the US Constitution including the 14th Amendment.