Reasons For This Blog
This is a branch of my Escondido blog (esco1.blogspot.com) which deals with issues in Escondido, California. For much of last year, the blog focused on the future of Palomar Medical Center in downtown Escondido. This year, the issue of illegal immigration came to the forefront of life in Escondido. First, large marches of students were organized protesting Congressional action to tighten security along the border with Mexico. Then an ordinance was introduced to ban landlords from renting to illegal aliens. The ordinance was passed, and that measure is now tied up by the Federal courts. Since the issue of illegal immigration is much larger than the City of Escondido, this separate blog was created.
It appears that an epic battle over illegal immigration is in the works. On one side are the current administrative and judicial branches of the Federal Government which turn a blind eye to the local problems of illegal immigration. On the other side are the States and Cities which are seeing growing poverty concentrated in areas settled by illegal aliens. Congress sits in the middle, passing laws to address the problems, but failing to adequately fund the enforcement of those laws.
Long forgotten by the United States and the States is Article 1 Section 10 Clause 3 which states: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . engage in War, unless actually invaded . . . .
The treaty power and the uniform naturalization rule appear to be the only ways that the Federal Govenrment can limit the local power to police the current wave of foreign nationals after they illegally cross the borders of the United States.
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