I propose that the Rule of Law no longer exists in the United States and that a state of Anarchy prevails. In support of that I can point to several examples.

There are estimated to be 12 to 20 million people of various nationalities in the United States in open violation of U.S. immigration laws. They have no fear of the laws being enforced, witness the demonstrations of a thousand or more of them demanding the privileges of citizenship. Some of them use fraudulent identification to apply for jobs or government assistance for themselves and their families. Thousands of businesses employ them in violation of the law and some additionally harbor them (a felony on the first offense) or transport them (also a felony on the first offense). These things by themselves are strongly indicative of a state of anarchy.

Now consider the Congress of the United States (both houses) and the Executive Department of the United States... by their lack of action to enforce the laws of the Unites States they have perjured their oath of office. They have sworn to uphold the laws of the United States and have failed to do so. They are complicit before the fact in every crime committed by a person who is inside the United States illegally because they failed to correct the conditions which allowed those illegal aliens to be present in the U.S. to commit those crimes. That is to say that the crimes committed by illegal aliens could not have happened if those illegal aliens were not in the U.S. to begin with. By the way, the maximum penalty for a U.S. citizen who harbors an illegal alien who subsequently causes the death of another U.S. citizen is imprisonment for any period up to life or the death penalty. It's about time we started holding our government officials accountable for their actions or lack of action. Our problem is that it is the responsibility of the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute such crimes, the Justice Department works for the President of the United States (through the Attorney General), and the President does not want those crimes prosecuted! He wants Border Patrol agents prosecuted for shooting an escaping illegal alien felon in the ass (who has just brought $1 million worth of drugs into the U.S.) though.

More to add, will come back later, RHB

 

The following is the section from the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 (Scamnesty) that implements amnesty:

S 1639 PCS 644

‘‘(8) TEMPORARY STAY OF REMOVAL AND WORK

AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN APPLICANTS.—
‘‘(A) BEFORE APPLICATION PERIOD.—Beginning on the date of enactment of the AgJOBS Act of 2007, the Secretary shall provide that, in the case of an alien who is apprehended prior to the first date of the application period described in subsection (c)(1)(B) and who can establish a non-frivolous case of eligibility for a Z–A visa (but for the fact that the alien may not apply for such status until the beginning of such period), the alien—

‘‘(i) may not be removed; and

‘‘(ii) shall be granted authorization to engage in employment in the United States and be provided an employment authorized endorsement or other appropriate work permit for such purpose.

‘‘(B) DURING APPLICATION PERIOD.—The Secretary shall provide that, in the case of an alien who presents a non-frivolous application for Z–A visa during the application period described in subsection (c)(1)(B), including an alien who files such an application within 30 days of the alien’s apprehension, and until a final determination on the application has been made in accordance with this section, the alien—

‘‘(i) may not be removed; and

‘‘(ii) shall be granted authorization to engage in employment in the United States and be provided an employment authorized endorsement or other appropriate work permit for such purpose.

I've reformatted it so it will wrap to the web page window but I haven't changed any of the wording.

NOTES:

The above text is an amendment to United States Code Title 8 (available as a 505 page 2.41MB download), not a new law.

I consider the documentation requirements to support a "not-trivial" application to be trivial and easily forged.

Once an illegal alien has a work permit (and a Social Security card, since they can't work without one) there is no way to ensure that they will ever return to pay fines or complete their application for permission to stay legally.

The government can't stop convicted felons from re-entering the country and committing more crimes now, there is no reason to believe they will be able to do so in the future.

It seems like the President and many in Congress want to merge the U.S. with Canada and Mexico. I was just wondering about something. With statements made by the previous and current Presidents of Mexico, they have already abrogated the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo which ended the war between Mexico and the U.S. and that should return us to a state of war. Mexico has encouraged her citizens to cross the border illegally and take up residence in the United States in violation of our immigration laws. The President of Mexico has publicly stated that "where there is a Mexican, there is Mexico." The President of the U.S. has told the Mexican people (when he was in Mexico) that he would work for them on immigration issues.

If the President and Congress really want to extend U.S. Constitutional protections and federal privileges to citizens of Mexico, why don't they just annex Mexico? Annex Mexico and everybody gets what they want. The President and those globalists he represents get two thirds of the North American "Community" (Union) they want, Mexicans get free access to all of the U.S. rights and privileges we have (because when we annex Mexico we make all Mexican citizens U.S. citizens), businesses get all the labor they can use BUT they have to pay them at the going legal rate, we eliminate the need for a border fence, we eliminate delays in border crossings, the advantages go on and on.

Just wondering.

Rickey Braddam

It looks to me like the law against "harboring" illegal aliens could be very effective in motivating illegal aliens to leave the United States. It depends on whether the law is general enough to apply in situations they may not have originally intended. Or maybe they did, and I should have given them more credit...

I wonder if someone who picks up a truckload of workers at a parking lot (or at the side of the road) and takes them to a worksite of theirs could be prosecuted under (ii) below if the workers were illegal aliens? Note "reckless disregard".

Scroll down to the line of asterisks *************. The way I included it is verbatim from the link below. I also wonder if the phrase in (iii) that starts with "including" makes landlords liable for prosecution if they rent to illegal aliens?

The last part at the bottom of this  may be relevant when an illegal alien's residence can be determined. If I had property to rent I might be very careful about who I rented to if I could go to prison or even (possibly) get the death penalty because THEY got into an automobile accident and killed someone when they were DWI.

Chapter 12 of Title 8, USC is available here:
http://uscode.house.gov/download/pls/08C12.txt for anyone who wants to verify this.

    TITLE 8 - ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
    CHAPTER 12 - IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY
    SUBCHAPTER II - IMMIGRATION
    Part VIII - General Penalty Provisions

    Sec. 1324. Bringing in and harboring certain aliens

    (a) Criminal penalties
      (1)(A) Any person who -
        (i) knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to
      bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person
      at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other
      than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether
      such alien has received prior official authorization to come to,
      enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any
      future official action which may be taken with respect to such
      alien;
**********************************
        (ii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien
      has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in
      violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport
      or move such alien within the United States by means of
      transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of
      law;
        (iii) knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an
      alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in
      violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection,
      or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such
      alien in any place, including any building or any means of
      transportation;
***********************************
        (iv) encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or
      reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of
      the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be
      in violation of law; or
        (v)(I) engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding
      acts, or
        (II) aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,

    shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

      (B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien
    in respect to whom such a violation occurs -
        (i) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I)
      or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or
      (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial
      advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18,
      imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
        (ii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii),
      (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more
      than 5 years, or both;
        (iii) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii),
      (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person
      causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title
      18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined
      under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

        (iv) in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii),
      (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be
      punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for
      life, fined under title 18, or both.

Rickey Braddam

Below is the section of Senate bill 1639 which grants immediate amnesty to all illegal aliens present in the United States on the day the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act (Scamnesty) is enacted. S.1639 was the second attempt, and so far the last, to pass the Scamnesty Act in the Senate. If McCain is elected you can expect to see it back shortly after he takes office. There are several things to take notice of:

• a work permit presupposes a Social Security card, in fact it could be JUST a Social Security card.
• there is no definition of a period of validity for the work permit, making it permanent.
• there is no inducement to get them to apply for a work permit, so why should they? They're already working in the country and are not seeking citizenship anyway. Since the laws are no more likely to be enforced than they have been for the last 42 years the illegal aliens have nothing to fear.
• the Scamnesty Act is not a complete law unto itself, it's a series of patchwork-quilt amendments to existing law (Title 8, United States Code) so it is extremely difficult to determine precisely how the amended law will actually read.
• the number of Z-A visas is limited to 1.5 million, but the number of Z-A Dependant visas is not limited.
• Under United States law an immigrant must renounce allegiance to all other countries and/or governments, but under Mexican law a Mexican citizen keeps their citizenship even if they renounce it to get U.S. citizenship.

S.1639 PCS p643

‘‘SEC. 214A. ADMISSION OF AGRICULTURAL WORKERS.
‘‘(d) APPLICATION.—
‘‘(8) TEMPORARY STAY OF REMOVAL AND WORK AUTHORIZATION FOR CERTAIN APPLICANTS.—

‘‘(A) BEFORE APPLICATION PERIOD.—Beginning on the date of enactment of the AgJOBS Act of 2007, the Secretary shall provide that, in the case of an alien who is apprehended prior to the first date of the application period described in subsection (c)(1)(B) and who can establish a non frivolous case of eligibility for a Z–A visa (but for the fact that the alien may not apply for such status until the beginning of such period), the alien—
‘‘(i) may not be removed; and
‘‘(ii) shall be granted authorization to engage in employment in the United States and be provided an employment authorized endorsement or other appropriate work permit for such purpose.

‘‘(B) DURING APPLICATION PERIOD.—The Secretary shall provide that, in the case of an alien who presents a non frivolous application for Z–A visa during the application period described in subsection (c)(1)(B), including an alien who files such an application within 30 days of the alien’s apprehension, and until a final determination on the application has been made in accordance with this section, the alien—
‘‘(i) may not be removed; and
‘‘(ii) shall be granted authorization to engage in employment in the United States and be provided an employment authorized endorsement or other appropriate work permit for such purpose.

‘‘(e) NUMERICAL LIMITATIONS.—
‘‘(1) Z–A VISA.—The Secretary may not issue more than 1,500,000 Z–A visas.
‘‘(2) Z–A DEPENDENT VISA.—The Secretary may not count any Z–A dependent visa issued against the numerical limitation described in paragraph (1).

‘‘(f) EVIDENCE OF NONIMMIGRANT STATUS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Documentary evidence of nonimmigrant status shall be issued to each alien granted a Z–A visa or a Z–A dependent visa.

‘‘(2) FEATURES OF DOCUMENTATION.—Documentary evidence of a Z–A visa or a Z–A dependent visa—
‘‘(A) shall be machine-readable, tamper-resistant, and shall contain a digitized photograph and other biometric identifiers that can be authenticated;
‘‘(B) shall be designed in consultation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Forensic Document Laboratory;
‘‘(C) shall serve as a valid travel and entry document for an alien granted a Z–A visa or a Z–A dependent visa for the purpose of applying for admission to the United States where the alien is applying for admission at a port of entry;
‘‘(D) may be accepted during the period of
its validity by an employer as evidence of employment authorization and identity under section 274A; and
‘‘(E) shall be issued to the alien granted the visa by the Secretary promptly after final adjudication of such alien’s application for the visa, except that an alien may not be granted a Z–A visa or a Z–A dependent visa until all appropriate background checks on each alien are completed to the satisfaction of the Secretary.

‘‘(g) FINE.—An alien granted a Z–A visa shall pay a fine of $100 to the Secretary.

‘‘(h) TREATMENT OF ALIENS GRANTED A Z–A VISA.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as otherwise provided under this subsection, an alien granted a Z–A visa or a Z–A dependent visa shall be considered to be an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence for purposes of any law other than any provision of this Act.
‘‘(2) DELAYED ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL PUBLIC BENEFITS.—An alien granted a Z–A visa shall not be eligible, by reason of such status, for any form of assistance or benefit described in section 403(a) of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (8 U.S.C. 1613(a)) until 5 years after the date on which the alien is granted an adjustment of status under subsection (d).