DC Declares War On States
By Chuck Baldwin
July 20, 2010


This column is archived at
http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1898


Among the limited duties of the US Government enumerated in the federal
Constitution is Article. IV. Section. 4. "The United States shall guarantee
to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall
protect each of them against Invasion." However, for several decades now,
the federal government in Washington, D.C., has shown great ambition and
propensity to engage in activities to which it was never authorized, and to
ignore those responsibilities with which it is specifically charged. The
responsibility of the federal government to protect each State against
invasion is a classic example of the latter.

Can anyone deny that the states on the US southern border (California,
Arizona, New Mexico, and
Texas) are being invaded by an ongoing onslaught of
illegal aliens (many of whom are violent and dangerous criminals)? Somewhere
between 12 and 30 million illegals now reside in the US. The entire country
is feeling the effects of this invasion, but the Border States are
literally
under siege. And not only does the federal government do nothing to protect
the states against this invasion, it actively wars against states such as
Arizona when they attempt to protect themselves. Yes, I am saying it: the
Washington, D.C., lawsuit against the State of Arizona's immigration laws
should be regarded as an act of war against the State of Arizona in
particular, and against the states general in principle.

Please consider what Arizona and the other Border States are dealing with.
According to published reports:

*In Los Angeles, 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide in the first
half of 2004 (which totaled 1,200 to 1,500) targeted illegal aliens. Up to
two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) were for illegal aliens.

*Some private reports state that 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix and
86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque,
New Mexico, are for illegal
aliens. These reports cannot be verified, of course, because the feds
discourage law enforcement agencies from releasing such statistics.

*At any given time, up to 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los
Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.

*23% of all inmates in LA County detention centers are "deportable."

*LA police estimate that violent gangs, such as MS-13 and 18th Street Gang,
are "overwhelmingly" composed of illegal aliens.

To read one very enlightening testimony given before Congress by an expert
on illegal immigration containing some of the above information (and much
more), go here:

http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald04-13-05.htm

In addition, the Pew Hispanic Center (an organization friendly to all
things
Hispanic) reports that by 2007, "nearly one-quarter (24%) of all federal
convictions" involve illegal aliens. And "among those sentenced for
immigration offenses in 2007, 80% were Hispanic." The PHC went on to report
that illegal Hispanics "represented 29% of all federal offenders."

See the report at:

http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=104

Remember, too, that illegal aliens murder (on average) 12 American citizens
EVERY DAY in the United States. That means illegals murder more Americans
EVERY YEAR than in the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan
COMBINED, TO DATE. Plus,
illegal aliens who drive drunk kill an additional 13 Americans EVERY DAY.

See the following report:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103

At this point, I will not again chronicle the financial costs and job
losses
exacted upon the American taxpayers by these invading illegals, but I
encourage you to read a previous column I wrote on this subject. See it
here:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1490

Plus, my web site contains an exhaustive page dealing with the problems and
costs of the ongoing invasion by illegal aliens against this country. See it
at:

http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?page_id=123

Add to the above the blatant rhetoric and public statements of activists
within radical Hispanic revolutionary groups such as La Raza that
incessantly call for the "reconquista" of the southwestern United States,
and one can easily discern that the invasion by (mostly) Mexicans in the US
is much more than "poor people trying to find a better life." There is
some
of that going on, of course, but the invasion also includes violent criminal
gang members, drug dealers, human traffickers, rogue government troops, and
covert provocateurs who are attempting to destabilize US cities and states,
promote crime and violence, disrupt honest elections, and even facilitate
revolution against the American citizenry.

And what does the Barack Obama administration do? Instead of obeying the
Constitution and helping to protect the State of Arizona (and the other
Border States), it sues the State of Arizona
for trying to protect itself.
Again, by this action, has not Washington, D.C., declared war against the
State of Arizona (and, by implication, the other 49 independent, sovereign
states)?

Please understand: Arizona
Governor Jan Brewer and her allies in the Arizona
legislature are not only defending their State, they are working to protect
every State in the Union. Very obviously, the line is being drawn in the
sand against a federal leviathan that increasingly shows blatant disregard
for not only its own responsibilities and duties, but for the rights and
freedoms of the individual sovereign states, and for the American citizenry
as a whole.

And for those misguided Christians and pastors out there who are prone to
defend and facilitate this invasion of illegal aliens in the name of
Christian compassion, I would like to remind them of the words of our Lord,
who said, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door
into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and
a robber." (John 10:1 KJV) Thus, our Savior plainly categorizes illegal
aliens (or anyone who refuses to enter through a door--or across a
border--honestly) as thieves and robbers. Unfortunately, many are also
rapists, murderers, violent drug dealers, and slave merchants.

If Barack Obama had even a smidgen of honesty and integrity, instead of
attacking the people of the State of Arizona for simply trying to defend
themselves against a very real and dangerous foreign invasion, he would take
seriously his responsibility to help protect them against this invasion,
which Article IV. Section. 4. of the US Constitution clearly requires him to
do..