The separation of rights and privileges is the issue before us today.

The United States Constitution, states very plainly and unequivocally in Article I, Section 8, Clause 4, the following:

“The Congress shall have Power…To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization…”

The Supreme Court has usurped this unequivocal right and responsibility of the legislative branch of our government, and placed it upon themselves. They have once again become the legislators by using their rulings to enact policy and write the laws of the land.

The cases to prove this point are, Graham v. Richardson in 1971, Sugarman v. Dougall in 1973, In Re Griffiths in 1973, Hampton v. Mow Sun Wong in 1976, Nyquist v. Mauclet in 1977, and finally, Plyler v. Doe in 1982.

In the above cases, the Supreme Court has granted illegal immigrants (illegal aliens), the following rights:

• the right to receive both state and federal welfare benefits
• the right to hold civil service jobs
• the right to a free public education
• the right to take a state’s bar exam and become licensed, practicing attorneys
• the right to not have to at least apply for citizenship before becoming eligible for financial aid for higher education

among many others too numerous to mention. We are not talking about those millions of people who have entered this country by legal means, and have earned the right to become naturalized citizens, but those individuals who have entered this country by illegal means, and remain here illegally.

The economic burden placed on the taxpayers has grown to staggering numbers. Illegal immigration is ravaging Arizona, by Don Collins in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review on June 22, 2004, writes that “illegal immigration now costs Arizona taxpayers about $1.3 billion annually”. Stephen Dinan, wrote in the Washington Times, in an article entitled, States pay $7.4 billion to educate illegals. Here is an excerpt of what he wrote:

“Educating illegal immigrants in public schools costs states at least $7.4 billion annually, according to a study by the Federation for American Immigration Reform that argues American children are being hurt by the drain on resources.”Illegal immigration is no free lunch,” said Dan Stein, executive director of FAIR. “It’s about shifting burdens - lowering labor costs at a tremendous cost not only to American taxpayers but to American kids.”

The real danger in what the SCOTUS has done is not from staggering economic costs, nor the trampling of both state and federal laws, but in what they have laid the foundation for in the future.

The legal processes are currently being filed for the enemy combatants in the war on terror, now being held in Guantanamo Bay. At some point in the future the Supreme Court will rule that those terrorists are protected by the same laws and standings which are supposedly reserved for citizens of the United States, and as such are entitled to equal protection under the law.

Finally, what is totally appalling about the separation of rights and privileges as afforded by the SCOTUS, is that citizens of this country have failed to become informed about the Supreme Court and their activist rulings. After their gross negligence in becoming informed, they failed to elect legislators who would take back their constitutionally given power from the SCOTUS.

The old addage that “ignorance can be cured, but stupid lasts forever”, should be applied here. Either the American people become informed and active, or we will all be relegated to the pages of history as being the stupid generation, who tacitly agreed to give up the Democratic Republic of the United States of America.

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Tags: Supreme Court, illegal immigrants, illegal aliens, Judicial Activism