Thread: Georgia AG, Sam Olens, fails constitutional law 101 as applied to Syrian refugees

SEE Georgia attorney general: State can't stop resettlement of Syrian refugees or deny benefits

Dec. 30, 2015

”ATLANTA — Georgia cannot exclude Syrian refugees from resettlement in the state or deny them federally funded benefits, the state attorney general wrote in an official opinion Wednesday.

Attorney General Sam Olens wrote Wednesday in an official opinion that there is no law that allows a state to single out refugees from a particular country for exclusion from the refugee resettlement program.”


Attorney General Sam Olens also asserts in the article that “the decision to place refugees in a particular state rests entirely with the federal government”. But what Sam Olens fails to establish is the wording in our Constitution under which our federal government has been granted a power to admit refugees at our ports of entry and then force them upon the States.

The fact is, under the Articles of Confederation each state, and this specifically includes the State of Georgia [one of the original 13 States] regulated immigration into their state. This original power exercised by the State of Georgia has never been repealed nor has it been delegated to the United States by our Constitution.

Although Congress has been granted the exclusive power to set the requirements which a foreigner residing in a particular state must meet to become a citizen of the United States, that limited power was never intended to, nor does it, alter Georgia’s original policing powers over foreign immigration into their State.

The question which Georgia’s Attorney General needs to answer for the good people of Georgia is, what provision in our federal Constitution forbids the Governor and Legislature of the State of Georgia to regulate foreign immigration into their state? Additionally, the Attorney General needs to identify the wording in our federal Constitution under which Congress or our President, has allegedly been granted a power to admit foreigners at our ports of entry and then compel the various States to accept them.

Keep in mind that a power not granted by our Constitution to the federal government is a power denied, and, all powers not delegated by our Constitution to the federal government are reserved by the States under the 10 Amendment!

To assume our President or Congress can exercise powers not granted by the people in our written Constitution is to assume ”the servant is above his master; that the representatives of the people are superior to the people themselves.”___ quoting Hamilton in Federalist No 78.

Is it not time for the Attorney General of Georgia to grow a spine and tell Obama and his open border crowd to go pound sand?

JWK


"The Constitution is the act of the people, speaking in their original character, and defining the permanent conditions of the social alliance; and there can be no doubt on the point with us, that every act of the legislative power contrary to the true intent and meaning of the Constitution, is absolutely null and void. ___ Chancellor James Kent, in his Commentaries on American Law [1858]

Then don't let any refugees in. There's no Constitutional mandate that forces a state to accept foreign immigrants or refugees or any other alien resident into their state. Furthermore the US government has no authority under the Constitution to admit them to begin with.

Just Say No.

Three simple words.

Originally Posted by Judy

Then don't let any refugees in. There's no Constitutional mandate that forces a state to accept foreign immigrants or refugees or any other alien resident into their state. Furthermore the US government has no authority under the Constitution to admit them to begin with.

Just Say No.

Three simple words.

Judy,

Our problem is the vast majority of the people have been cleverly brainwashed over the years to believe the States surrendered their policing power over immigration to the federal government. This must be corrected by educating the people at every opportunity, and confronting state AGs when they make absurd and misleading comments as Georgia's Attorney General made.

In any event, CLICK HERE to see some of Georgia’s contemporary immigration laws, confirming Sam Olens comment is without foundation! Why on earth does he not pay attention to the Tenth Amendment and the defined and enumerated powers actually granted to our federal government?

JWK


"On every question of construction [of the Constitution], carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p.322.

Oh absolutely! Brain-washed drones is what they are. It's pathetic. We swear in Presidents, Vice Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Judges ... who all swear to uphold a Constitution they've never read and have no clue what it says because they've never bothered to read it.

Originally Posted by Judy

Oh absolutely! Brain-washed drones is what they are. It's pathetic. We swear in Presidents, Vice Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Judges ... who all swear to uphold a Constitution they've never read and have no clue what it says because they've never bothered to read it.

Actually, many of our worst domestic enemies on Capitol Hill do read the Constitution to find artful ways to circumvent it. As a matter of fact Obama has a battery of lawyers dedicated to this very cause!


JWK