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Thank you for referencing that article PoloSec. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

"Grants States and Localities the Authority to Enforce Immigration Laws: ..."

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Patriots may admire Rep. Gowdy as a John Wayne-type cowboy, but the absurd language above from the proposed SAFE Act begs the question if Gowdy was present when HoR RINOs read the Constitution out loud at the beginnings of the 2011 and 2013 legislative sessions.

As mentioned in related threads concerning so-called federal government power to regulation, please consider the following. Politically correct interpretations of the Constitution's "uniform Rule of Naturalization" Clause aside, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I, the states have never delegated to Congress, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration, immigration a 10th Amendment-protected state power. Unique state power to regulate immigration is evdenced by the following excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's writings.

“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

Rep. Gowdy evidently doesn't understand the federal government's constitutionally limited power well enough to know that the burden is on Congress to petition the states for an amendment to the Constitution which would delegate to Congress the specific power regulate immigration if the states chose to ratify it.

As a side note concerning the federal government's constitutionally limited powers, please consider the following. The states would sure be a dull, boring place to grow up and live in if parents were to make sure that their children were taught about the federal government's constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood. /sarc

Thomas Jefferson had put it this way:

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)