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Thread ID: 6583 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2003-05-09
2003-05-09 23:36 | User Profile
UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW :( :angry: :blink:
By Mark Andrew Dwyer -- May 9, 2003
On May 8, 2003, the California Senate approved legislation that would require all local governments and authorities to accept Mexican matricula consular cards as a valid form of ID. I just couldn't believe my eyes when I read about it. A "tamper-proof" document that is issued in hundreds of thousands by Mexican consulates to all Mexican nationals (or look alikes) who can produce an easy to forge Mexican birth certificate (available in L.A. for about thirty bucks), a utility bill, and equally easy to fabricate school certificate with a photograph. The advertised "safety" features" of these ID cards are a joke; why would someone try to forge one if they are so easily obtainable with bogus documents and without verification of their authenticity by the issuing clerks?
The legislation, known under the name of AB 522, is exactly the kind that the U.S. Constitution expressly prohibits. Section 10 Art. 3 of the Constitution clearly states that "No State shall, without the consent of Congress,[...] enter into any Agreement or Compact [...] with a foreign Power[...]". Well, passing a state law that recognizes Mexican government issued matricula consular cards as valid IDs required in that State of California to open a bank account, establish business, or claim city and county services for the bearer obviously falls into that prohibited category since it de facto establishes a compact with a foreign state. Mexican consulates issue these cards to Mexican nationals illegally residing in California, for the purpose of assisting them to avoid deportation and to circumvent the U.S. immigration law, and State of California agrees to recognize these cards for that very purpose, in lieu of Mexican passports with valid U.S. visas. All this is being done despite the fact that the U.S. Congress has recently banned federal agencies from accepting matricula consular cards as a valid form of ID.
The fact that California lawmakers, by passing AB 522, are actually trying to usurp for themselves the powers reserved by the U.S. Constitution to the Federal Legislature must have been clear to any one who watches the discussion around this bill and similar proposals. A back door amnesty for illegal entrants and the opening of the border with Mexico are the ultimate goals of this legislation. Never mind that, as the results of various polls have consistently shown, about 85% of Americans are opposed to such measures. Never mind that millions of unassimilating Mexican "undocumented immigrants" ("invaders" and "settlers" would have been more adequate names for what they really are) and their countless children have already wrecked the "Golden" State's public health care and education system, and are making California look, function, and sound like a Third-World country. Those behind AB 522 are claiming that "Hispanization" of California is inevitable and push vigorously towards this suicidal direction, trying to reduce the traditionally pro-American population, as well as the American culture and English language, to irrelevant nuisances that can no longer thwart the Mexican take-over.
Few years ago, the "open borders" lobby managed to derail Proposition 187, approved by almost 2/3 of California voters, under the pretext that it violated the U.S. Constitution. Now, would some Good Samaritan attorney please step forward and take upon him/herself a pro bono task to file with a Federal Court a constitutional challenge against this obviously unconstitutional AB 522 once it's approved by the governor? Millions of lawful residents of California will greatly appreciate that.