Dear editor,
A portion of Article IV, Section 4 states, "and shall protect each of them (the States) against Invasion." As the Commander in Chief, our President is the sole person given this constitutional power of protection. So what is deemed a constitutional invasion?
The definition of "Invasion" reads as such: "an instance of invading a country or region with an armed force; an incursion by a large number of people or things into a place or sphere of activity; an unwelcome intrusion into another's domain."
So an invasion can be armed or not. It can be by people, or drugs, or by both because one is needed to carry the other, as is any disease is also carried.
So what defines "a large number of people or things"? Would it be 100, 500, 5 or 10,000 people? Or the 10 to 20 million people that already exist illegally within our borders!
Now you can transfer those same numbers to the number of pounds of illegal drugs also crossing our borders. If our borders were protected with border fencing as Democrats describe and are willing to pay for versus a wall, has that border fencing already failed allowing those 10 to 20 million illegal immigrants?
Today's Democrats want the same fence solution that has failed in the past, throwing good money after bad, that did not solve our problem as added border personnel hasn't either. Democrats don't see it as "their" problem of open borders, and thus any collateral damage caused by this invasion is not "their" problem but that of the individual, and families to bear who have suffered under their Democrat policy.
If no wall, why not a federal E-Verify, federal Voter ID, no federal or state funds to non-citizens, and a 2020 U.S. census with a citizenship check box? Democrats have already "resisted" these solutions! The reality is Democrats are happy with any collateral damage suffering of U.S. citizens!
STEVEN KING
Milton
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