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An open letter to the GOP Members of Congress

As a Representative or Senator in Congress, you took this Oath:

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

"Support and defend the Constitution" it says. Did you see that? That document, in turn, requires, per Art.4, S.4, that

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence."

An invasion is what we are suffering. That invasion has accelerated with each "comprehensive immigration reform" previously enacted. Instead of another disastrous reform that yet again increases the incentives for millions more to try their luck crossing the southern border, a Member of Congress who took his Oath and the Constitution seriously would be pressing for what the American people have repeatedly said they want - not what Senators Schumer and McCain, Mark Zuckerberg, Mexico, some border state farmers and homebuilders or the Chamber of Commerce rent-seekers want. That is:

secure the border in a transparently verifiable way;
end the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment;
enforce eVerify without exception and with severe penalties;
end chain migration - entry per individual qualifications, not family ties;
deportation upon contact with any law enforcement agency - federal, state or local
no government benefits beyond critical emergency care (and that ought to be billed back to the home government); and
NO "Path to Citizenship" - EVER - for anyone who has entered the US illegally.

Any measure that does not accomplish these things is unacceptable. It is de facto amnesty. And it will inevitably, ineluctably encourage millions and millions more illegal entries.

If the GOP is complicit in this amnesty fiasco, either by taking up the Senate bill or through some piecemeal slight of hand with a series of House bills such as we hear are being cooked up of late, or as riders on other necessary legislation, the GOP will cease to exist. It will not survive through the 2016 elections. The people will shun the over-tanned, glad-handing, backslapping quislings and look elsewhere for leaders who actually have the spine for the fight. Make no mistake - to me and to many, many others, amnesty is the GOP's Rubicon. Cross it at your electoral peril.

They are not asylum seekers. They are driven by opportunism, not fear. Based on UN statistics, homicide rates in these countries (except for Honduras) declined from 2009 to 2012. What has changed is our policy and their knowledge of it. The 2002 legislation which prevents the immediate return of these people to their country did not draw them until Obama instituted his Dreamer policy. Then they came, secure in the knowledge that they would be released into our communities and then later be able to claim Dreamer status. Change the 2002 law and Obama’s Dreamer policy and they will not come.

end the anchor-baby interpretation of the 14th Amendment

I really don't think it's an "interpretation", it's a simple literal reading of the text.

Undoubtedly, it is contrary to intent, but when the authors are dead, the text they left behind has to rule.

Anyone who can be detained by agents of the United States, brought before a magistrate, suffer penalties prescribed by law including confinement and forfeiture is, beyond a doubt, "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States.