That's funny - I was just explaining to my daughter at dinner how people who think they support the constitution WRT immigration don't even know what it says, and here you are.
"To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions"
I mean, this is pretty plain English.
1) There is no militia. Without a militia, this sentence is inoperative and your point is void. Border patrol is not the militia, and neither ICS, the FBI, or any other alphabet agency. The closest you could possibly come is the National Guard which is still about a mile off target for what the militia is supposed to be.
You don't get to just skip the clearly specified method of executing this power because reasons and still call yourself a constitutionalist
Say what?
USC §246. Militia: composition and classes
(a) The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard.
(b) The classes of the militia are—
(1) the organized militia, which consists of the National Guard and the Naval Militia; and
(2) the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia
2) "Invasion" is clearly separated from "execute laws of the union" - meaning the framers did not understand those to be the same thing. You need to pick here - either the flood of immigration is a military invasion, or it's against the laws of the union.
If you contend a military invasion, then you're reinterpreting the word and you are no better than those who use the interstate commerce clause to sneak in any federal power they can think up.
If you contend it's executing laws of the Union, then you need to stop butchering English vocabulary, but you also bump into the 10th Amendment since there is no clear federal authority to do any of this border patrol stuff.[/FONT][/SIZE]
Yes, it is an invasion, as clearly as if it was being done with bullets and bombs instead of bodies.
Article Four Section Four states:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
and shall protect each of them against Invasion
The Constitution is the Supreme law of the land.
The Executive branch's duty is to execute and carry out the laws of land.
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
So you have both: a duty to protect the states from invasion, and a duty to carry out the law.
Failure to carry out these duties
deliberately, with malice aforethought, as this administration has done and is doing, while currently under bioweapon attack
and invasion, is treason of the highest order and should be punished by execution.