Bush is Violating the Constitution

He is not enforcing our laws

Published on March 31, 2006 By COL Gene In Politics

There is talk as to why we need new immigration laws since the laws currently on the books are not being enforced. Laws that require employers to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes. Laws that require Federal withholding taxes. Laws regarding legal entry into the United States. Why do we have laws on the books that are not being enforced? What makes anyone believe any new laws passed by Congress to control illegal immigration will be enforced? Who is responsible to enforce our federal laws? Answer The President. Below is the exact section and statement from our Constitution that REQUIRES the President to enforce the laws passed by Congress.
It is time for Bush to enforce our laws or for Congress to remove him from office for violating the Constitution of the United States!
The Constitution of the United States
Article II. - The Executive Branch

Section 3 - State of the Union, Convening Congress

He shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed

Comments (Page 1)

Jewbu

on Mar 31, 2006

Hello Col.

I live in New Mexico, close to the Mexican/US border. Every day I went to work, I had to pass through a border checkpoint. Don't think it was at the border, now, a hundred miles inside the border on I-25. Was I a citizen? Where was I coming from? Where was I going? Common and easily enough answered questions. Everday for five years. The laws are being enforced. We have very long, desolate borders. We are spending billions of dollars in another desert a long way away from our own borders, ostensibly to protect us. At the same time there are a ton of jobs currently being done by illegal immigrants. No one I know wants to do these jobs. Picking chilis, cotton, pulling up onions. Oh yeah, a lot of applicants.

I think our energy and our money should be better invested in discovering a way to address the realities of life along the border.

Be well.

DJBandit

on Mar 31, 2006

This is by far the stupidest article you have written yet Col. Let me ask you this, can you tell me another name for police or federal agents or border patrol? Here's the answer, Law Enforcement Officers.

Do you also believe Bush is responsible for every person who drives over the speed limit, or does not use a seat belt, or does not have a licence, or does not file their tax return, or does prostitution, or sells drugs, or murders, j-walks, or steals, etc?

Do you know what all these things have in common? There is a law that makes every one of them illegal and none of those laws are fully enforced or have eliminated or diminished any of them. That would mean that every President we've had since the Constitution was made and every law made afterwards has "VIOLATED" the Constitution.

What is most ridiculous about you and this article is that you B_TCHED (cause there is no other better way to say it) about him not doing anything about the immigration problem and now that he is doing something about it you are complaining that he didn't need to do any changes.

Moderateman

on Mar 31, 2006

today I misspelled a simple word, AND IT'S ALL BUSHES FAULT!!!!!!!!!!

COL Gene

on Mar 31, 2006

DJBandit

We are talking about some of the MOST BASIC laws of our country. The tax laws and laws to protect our borders. Without enforcing these laws we have very little as a society. Who ever heard of a country that did not enforce its borders and tax laws?

These are the responsibility of Bush. The federal agencies that actually enforce these laws report directly to Bush. Bush is the one that requests the funding from Congress to insure these are the resources with which to enforce the laws. Border Guards, IRS agents etc. He is the one responsible to ensure our laws are enforces so says the Constitution. With 20 Million illegal in this country it is clear he is NOT enforcing our laws. He also has not requested the necessary money in the budget to hire the added border Guards he claims are needed to secure the Border WHY? This is the MOST basic responsibility of the President which Bush has ignored!

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 31, 2006

Nobody "picks" cotton anymore, just an FYI. As for the other jobs, I have ALWAYS been more than willing and I know other Americans just as willing.

As far as border enforcement, I think you are VASTLY misinformed. A checkpoint 25 miles in does no good. And I am hearing multiple credible firsthand accounts that places like Nuevo Laredo are fast becoming war zones.

I AGREE with a good guest worker program, frankly. Part of the problem we have now is that many of the illegals remain in the US, when they might otherwise return home, but they stand a greater chance of being apprehended RETURNING to Mexico than they do coming FROM Mexico. If we tracked them and gave them a good means to come across and work for a set period of time, we wouldn't have as many problems as we now do.

COL Gene

on Mar 31, 2006

How about using Prisoners to pick the crops. Let them help pay for their keep. WE are not talking about spelling words we are talking about the President violating the Constitution!

Gideon MacLeish

on Mar 31, 2006

How about using Prisoners to pick the crops. Let them help pay for their keep.

So, let me get this straight, Col: You have no problem with us GIVING the taxpayers' money to countries like Mexico, but you have a problem with their citizens coming across the border to WORK to support themselves? You are making less and less sense all the time.

Maybe if you would think these issues through instead of operating on the presumption that "Bush is wrong 100% of the time", you'd amount to more than just being JU's resident village idiot.

DJBandit

on Mar 31, 2006

How about using Prisoners to pick the crops. Let them help pay for their keep. WE are not talking about spelling words we are talking about the President violating the Constitution!

You talking stupidity. Never has a President been accused of violating the Constitution for not enforcing a law. Everyone knows that the responsible ones are the police, border patrol, FBI, etc. So what if they report directly back to the President, it's not like they are saying " we can't catch them, there are too many". You know yourself that is total BS, as far as the President is concerned they are doing everything they can to stop the illegal imigrations but it's not enough. Stop the stupidity already, your articles are getting more and more ignorant as you run out of things to complain about Bush.

Moderateman

on Mar 31, 2006

#6 by COL Gene
Friday, March 31, 2006

How about using Prisoners to pick the crops. Let them help pay for their keep. WE are not talking about spelling words we are talking about the President violating the Constitution!

no we are talking about how you manage to blame bush for everything that happens in the entire planet, hence my last 5 comments on your blogs.

bakerstreet

on Mar 31, 2006

mmm... i want to eat vegetables picked by bitter lifers with nothing to lose. Nothing like a rusty needle in your fresh fruit to get the day started right.

I wonder, should all the Presidents before Bush have been impeached, too, considering we've always had this problem?

Daiwa

on Mar 31, 2006

The repetitive inanity of your articles is bizarre, Gene.

chiprj

on Mar 31, 2006

I appreciate your ability to say all that without using colorful metaphors.

This post (original post, that is) and so many previous posts by the author are perfect proof that we need an ignore user function more than ever. I know, I know, if I don't want to read this crap, I shouldn't click it (and I very rarely do), but I'd really prefer that it didn't show up at all in my sidebar when surfing JU.

Jewbu

on Mar 31, 2006

McLeash: Nobody "picks" cotton anymore, just an FYI. As for the other jobs, I have ALWAYS been more than willing and I know other Americans just as willing.

Sodaiho: Well, I see people doing just that in the fields along the Rio Grande every season.

McLeash: As far as border enforcement, I think you are VASTLY misinformed. A checkpoint 25 miles in does no good. And I am hearing multiple credible firsthand accounts that places like Nuevo Laredo are fast becoming war zones.

Sodaiho: Misinformed? I'll tell that to the Border Patrol Officer the next time I go through the checkpoint. As to effectiveness: there are tons of busses in New Mexico carting illegals back across the border from all over the inside of this state. I agree with you that the money to operate these checkpoints might be better spent closer to the actual border.

McLeash: I AGREE with a good guest worker program, frankly. Part of the problem we have now is that many of the illegals remain in the US, when they might otherwise return home, but they stand a greater chance of being apprehended RETURNING to Mexico than they do coming FROM Mexico. If we tracked them and gave them a good means to come across and work for a set period of time, we wouldn't have as many problems as we now do.

Sodaiho: Yeppers. I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Be well.

MythicalMino

on Mar 31, 2006

maybe we should send Bush down to the mexican border with a couple of pistols and the order to shoot to kill. Would that be ok, Col?

Oh, you would then complain about Bush using firearms on humans....

Moderateman

on Mar 31, 2006

#14 by MythicalMino
Friday, March 31, 2006

Oh, you would then complain about Bush using firearms on human

and complain about how fiscally irresponsible it is to waste taxpayer money shooting just one person per round@!!!!

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