[The links to certain words and phrases are not mine. Feel free to ignore these free-loading swine.]
The real problem with our immigration system, to the extent
that we have a system any longer, is that the world has learned to use our
innate goodness against our own interests.
We are the envy of the world. We
are a generous people, fair and forgiving. We have taken the great precepts of
Anglo-Saxon law and entered them into our National DNA.
Our forefathers saw fit to craft a Constitution designed to
protect citizens of the United States from despotism. I submit, however, it was never meant to
allow non-citizens to abuse the rights of the people. As I mentioned in yesterday’s entry, that
principle has been stood on its head as criminals who infiltrate our country
turn our own Constitution from a shield to protect us FROM government into a
sword by which politicians can allow strangers to our nation to profit from
their criminality at the expense of the citizens of the United States.
The presence of tens of millions of “undocumented” aliens,
i.e., criminals present in violation of the laws of the United States,
indicates that those people are confident that the laws of the United States do
not apply to them and that they may wag their noses at our laws. For those who say that they must be here
because their home countries are too poor have oppressive and corrupt
governments, I suggest that they follow the example of our forefathers. They did not presume to unlawfully enter some
other country and to demand the rights of that country’s citizens. No, they took up arms and asserted and won their
rights within their own country. Instead
of cowardice, they pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor—to
the extent of actually shedding blood—to earn the rights of citizenship. Do we
really want to add to our national bloodline the genes of people who are to
cowardly to fight for their rights?
Therefore, I suggest that the simplest way to stop this
usurpation is to amend our Constitution to ensure that it is a Constitution of,
for and by only our citizens and those we allow into our country in accordance
with our laws. Accordingly, I offer the
following for consideration:
PROPOSED AMENDMENT XXVIII
1. The rights, privileges, and protections afforded
to citizens of the United States by this Constitution, the laws enacted
pursuant thereto, or rules or regulations derivative therefrom, shall apply
only to citizens of the United States and those persons lawfully present
therein.
2. 2. No person
who has unlawfully entered the United States or who, having been lawfully temporarily
admitted, has lost that status due to the expiration or termination of that
lawful admission, may assert any right, privilege, or protection afforded by
this Constitution, the laws enacted pursuant thereto, or rules or regulations derivative
therefrom.
3. 3. Any person found to have entered the United
States without prior affirmative permission from the government of the United
States, or, having been lawfully admitted to the United States, to have lost
that status due to the expiration or termination of that lawful admission, shall be subject to immediate and summary return to that Nation from
which the individual entered the United States, without recourse to any Court
or agency of the United States.
Furthermore, any person found to have unlawfully entered the United
States without prior affirmative permission from the government of the United
States, or, having been lawfully admitted to the United States, to have lost
that status due to the expiration or termination of that lawful admission, and been
deported in accordance hereto shall thereafter never be eligible to seek lawful
temporary or permanent admission to the United States. The absence of any official record
establishing such lawful presence in the United States shall constitute final
and prima facie evidence of such unlawful presence.
4. 4. No person born within the national boundaries of
the United States of parents who are not then lawfully present in the United States may claim citizenship based on the principle jus soli or Amendment XIV of this Constitution; and any child
born of parents who were lawfully within the United States at the time of such
child’s birth but who are thereafter deported due to termination of that legal
status may not claim citizenship of the United States until such child has
reached the age of twenty-one years and has made application for and been
granted admission to the United States at the embassy of the United States in
such foreign country as that child may then reside. No right shall exist for such child to first enter the United States in order to assert a claim to citizenship, and if such claim is denied, such denial shall be final and shall not be subject to judicial or other administrative review.
5. 5. The rights to limitations on search and seizure,
protection from self-incrimination, indictment by grand jury, attorney
representation, trial by jury, bail, and resort to the Courts of the United States
by writ of habeas corpus shall not apply to persons who are not citizens of the
United States or not lawfully present therein.
6. 6. This amendment shall be effective immediately
upon ratification pursuant to Article V of the Constitution and shall also apply to
any person then unlawfully present in the United States, regardless of the date
of such person’s arrival in the United States; and furthermore, the protections
against ex post facto laws guaranteed under Article I, section 9 of the
Constitution shall not apply to persons unlawfully present in the United States
at the time of ratification of this amendment.
7. 7. Neither the Congress, the Executive, nor the
Courts of the United States may exercise any discretion in the interpretation
of this amendment to interpret, lessen or limit its terms, it being the intent hereof that the onerous provisions of
this amendment serve as clear evidence to all persons that unlawful entry into the
United States shall result in summary and immediate removal therefrom and
lifetime bar to readmission.
