Thread: Obama to Governors: you will accept my flood of immigrants or else.

See: Obama administration tells states they can't refuse Syrian refugees
November 26, 2015

”The Obama administration warned states over the Syrian refugee crisis Wednesday, telling them in a letter they do not have legal authority to refuse the refugees, and states that do not comply may be subject to enforcement action.”

The problem with Obama’s assertion is, there is absolutely no provision in our Constitution which can be pointed to supporting Obama’s contention/suggestion that the States delegated a power to our federal government which allows the federal government to compel a state to accept millions of immigrants who are pouring in from Mexico, Central America, Syria or any other country.

Our federal government’s power regarding immigrants is the limited power to set a uniform rule by which a foreigner who has entered a State may become a citizen of the United States. And that is where the federal government’s authority begins and ends! Keep in mind a power not delegated is a power denied! See the Tenth Amendment.

Additionally, there is no power which can be pointed to which repeals a power exercised by the States under the Articles of Confederation during which time each state was free to police and regulate immigration into their own state. But there is an exception to this original power which the States knowingly and willingly agreed to ___the exception being Article 1, Section 9, which reads:

"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, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person."

In fact, the above delegated power allows Congress to lay a tax or duty on foreigners entering a State from a foreign country, but leaves each State otherwise free to admit whom they please and set its own immigration policy in a manner which serves each particular State's interests, and the general welfare of the State.

So, those who contend our federal government has the power to compel the various united States to accept unwanted immigrants which the federal government allows to enter upon United States soil, are obligated to point to the wording in our Constitution that delegates the power to our federal government to admit tens of thousands, or even millions of poverty stricken or destitute foreigners on to American soil and then require unwilling states to accept them.

Let us recall what Chief Justice Marshall emphasized while the ink was barely dry on our existing Constitution:

The powers of the legislature are defined and limited; and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten, the constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing; if these limits may, at any time, be passed by those intended to be restrained? ______ MARBURY v. MADISON, 5 U.S. 137 (1803)

In closing, it’s a sad shame that Foxnews continually asserts that our federal government is vested with such power while being delinquent in substantiating its claim, just as Obama fails to provide the wording in our Constitution supporting his unsubstantiated contention.


JWK



The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. ___ Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47

Obama, sit down and shut up. Your days of telling Americans what to do and "warning" states what not to do has come to an end.

obama
let me tell you some thing gov accept flood of immigrants or eles
well we have people that live under in the wood's in pa & under the bridge to stay out of the cold no job no food & you want gov to accept immigrants or else go to hell