Friday the 13th, March, 2009

Attorney General Suthers,

Your office sent the following to my staff in Colorado yesterday under the premise that you had already properly addressed attempts in Colorado to give in-state tuition to illegal aliens.

“As you can see, we addressed this issue in a 2006 Attorney General opinion: http://www.ago.state.co.us/agopinions/AGO_PDFs/AGO06-1.pdf” 

Your 2006 Formal Opinion as Colorado’s Attorney General does not address the real issue, nor does it give the proper guidance to citizens or elected officials, or efforts in 2009 on both sides of the issue would not be necessary. Your sworn duty in upholding the U.S. Constitution is to the legal citizens of Colorado, and of the United States and our posterity, and NOT to illegal aliens and their posterity. From your January 23, 2006 formal opinion as Colorado Attorney General:

"This opinion, requested by Executive Director Rick O’Donnell, concerns the authority of the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (“CCHE”) to grant in-state tuition status to undocumented aliens. 1 1 For purposes of this memorandum, the term “undocumented alien” means an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States. See generally 8 U.S.C. § 1623; Equal Access Education v. Merten, 305 F.Supp. 2d 585, 592 (E.D.Va. 2004) (referring to “aliens with undocumented status”). QUESTION PRESENTED AND CONCLUSION Question: Whether CCHE has the statutory authority to, by policy or regulation, grant in-state tuition status to undocumented aliens. Answer: No. CCHE lacks statutory authority to establish a policy or regulation granting in-state tuition status to undocumented aliens.”

With all due respect Mr. Suthers, you should have put an end to this absurdity three years ago by “informing their discretion” as the author of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson advised. It is not too late for you to inform all concerned what the Constitution says about aiding and abetting illegal aliens, and what it says about the citizens of the United States being guaranteed protection against invasion. You have the opportunity to do what countless officials across the country have failed to do for decades; you can lead by example and show them all what having a backbone looks like; what upholding your oath with due diligence and a wholesome discretion entails.

Correct Answer: No, The mere framing of the question violates the 14th Amendment, Section 3, if posed by an elected official. There is no such thing as an “undocumented alien” in the context of this question. Since elected and public officials in Colorado have already identified the demographic they are pandering to as non-citizens who are not here lawfully, then by definition they are ILLEGAL aliens. To call them “undocumented” is inaccurate, if not an outright diversion. The whole purpose of the CCHE request revolved around their desire to grant privileges to foreign nationals who are “documented” as being here illegally. How then can we call them “undocumented?” Is it an attempt to blur the line between legal alien and illegal alien; between citizen and resident? Citizens of foreign countries who are in the United States illegally and those that pander to them don’t like it when We the People correctly identify them as “illegal aliens.”

Regrettably, many of We the People’s “employees” (elected officials) are aiding and abetting illegal aliens. Elected officials that succumb to their pleas to be referred to as “undocumented aliens,” have also failed to take the advice of President George Washington, who warned us of the dangers of foreign influence, and the threat it posed to our Constitutional Republic in his farewell address. State government officials, who are also “employees” of We the People, have failed to exercise their authority to rein in the federal government. The 10th Amendment to the “employee handbook,” (the U.S. Constitution) clearly states the limitations of the authority of the federal and state governments. Your 2006 opinion as Colorado’s Attorney General cites in part U.S. Code, Title 8, as your reasoning for referring to illegal aliens as “undocumented” as if the federal government’s failure to uphold the Constitution grants you the right to do the same. Their failure makes your responsibility that much more important and urgent. The federal government exists to serve the states and the People, not the other way around. This cycle of perpetual folly and tom-foolery must end.

A state government which will not exercise a wholesome discretion to enforce the 10th Amendment by allowing the federal government to overstep its bounds is itself in violation of its own pact with the People, and that states’ sovereignty is in grave jeopardy. Citizens of the United States who conspire to pressure elected officials to refer to illegal aliens as “undocumented aliens” in an attempt to circumvent the letter and intent of the Constitution are courting with acts of sedition.

CCHE shouldn’t even be asking the question.

You shouldn’t be citing bogus, un-Constitutional federal laws as justification for CCHE not having the authority it seeks. To suggest that the reason CCHE can’t give illegal aliens in-state tuition unless the state approves it first, or because it might violate the equal protection clause has no merit, and is perpetuating the ignorance of some, and the lies of others. What message did you send the Colorado Legislature, and anyone else who was listening? You told them they couldn’t give aid and comfort to enemies of our Constitution via the methods they were trying to employ. You should have told them what they wanted to do required changing the U.S. Constitution, and that any other conspiracy to attempt to give illegal aliens the privileges of citizens violates federal law and the U.S. Constitution.

You should have told them you would defend the Constitution. You should have told them after having informed their discretion, that there would be consequences if you caught them conspiring to aid and abet illegal aliens in the future. By what Constitutional authority do you suggest that illegal aliens fall under the jurisdiction of the United States in the context of the civil rights and privileges guaranteed to citizens?

The 14th Amendment, Section 1 clearly states:

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

According to the 14th Amendment, Section 1, to be a citizen of the United States, and of the state in which you reside you have to meet two basic qualifications:

1) Be a person born or naturalized in the United States, AND

2) Be subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

It doesn’t say one or the other. It requires both.

Illegal alien foreign nationals are not citizens, and since their children fall under the jurisdiction of the nation of their parents’ citizenship, they are not U.S. citizens either. Anchor-baby citizenship is a further perpetuation of the bastardization of the interpretation of the 14th Amendment. Their civil rights reside within the boundaries of their home country. The citizens of the United States are granted “equal protection” across the several states.

The Framers of the Constitution were not so arrogant or stupid as to assume they could grant that protection to the entire planet. By what authority do elected officials in Colorado and in the United States government ignore the Constitution in attempting to give the “equal protection” of citizenship to non-citizens? Legislators have no authority, right, or privilege to introduce legislation whose passage into law would undermine or circumvent the U.S. Constitution. The Colorado State Government lacks the statutory or Constitutional authority to grant in-state tuition to illegal aliens, period!

Aiding and abetting illegal aliens is a felony. Title 8, U.S. Code

Specifically, attempting to aid and abet illegal aliens by conspiring to implement legislation, policy, or regulatory changes to authorize granting illegal alien foreign national invaders of our sovereignty in-state tuition violates the intent, if not also the letter of the U.S. Constitution’s Article IV, Section 4, the 14th Amendment, Sections 3 and 4, as well as parts of U.S. Code, Title 8, Chapter 12, Subchapter II, Part VIII, 1324, Section (A)(v)(I & II), and Section (B), clauses (iii & iv), as authorized by the U.S. Constitution’s 14th Amendment, Section 5, which was ratified on July 9, 1868. This is not a news flash. It has been in effect 140 years! According to the Framers, the Constitution was written such that the common man would not need a constitutional lawyer to interpret it. Any man who spoke English, and was blessed with common sense, could interpret it on his own. The laws written to enforce the Constitution are also supposed to be written for the common man, devoid of double-speak and fancy rhetoric. We as citizens are often told “Ignorance of the law is no excuse.” Well, if that is true, then ignorance of the Constitution those laws are supposed to be written in compliance with is certainly no excuse! The complexity of Title 8 is indicative of the slick-tongued vernacular of barristers who failed to exercise their “wholesome discretion” as Thomas Jefferson advised.

Fortunately, the defining contractual agreement the states entered into in the founding of our Republican government, namely the U.S. Constitution, is quite clear.

Federal or state legislators who conspire to introduce legislation that is contrary to the contractual agreement between the states in forming a federal government are in act and effect undermining the Constitution, and our sovereignty as a nation of laws is jeopardized. If We the People don’t like what the Constitution says, the remedy is to amend it, not ignore or subvert it.

When elected officials, (federal, or state) attempt to grant in-state tuition, or any other “aid or comfort” to illegal aliens, they are committing a felony, to say the least. Human rights, yes. Civil rights, no! Equal rights? Never! In the case of elected officials who have taken an oath to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution, there are even more penalties.

Elected officials who aid and abet illegal aliens, or conspire to aid and abet illegal aliens in their insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution should be removed from office, forfeit the right to vote for President or Vice-President, and suffer a lifetime ban from ever holding public office again, in accordance with: Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which plainly states: "No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a two-thirds vote of each House remove such disability."

The “Background” and “Discussion” sections of your January, 2006 formal opinion are riddled with examples of attempts and conspiracies to attempt to undermine, ignore, subvert, and render the U.S. Constitution irrelevant.

Repeated attempts by enemies, (foreign and domestic) over the years to make a lie a truth, and references to fraudulent legal precedent (as if it trumps Constitutional precedent) do not negate the supremacy of the Constitution, nor relieve you or any other elected official of your oath and duty to uphold and defend the Constitution.

In the “Conclusion” section of your January, 2006 formal opinion, you state:

“In sum, federal law requires that, in order for states to grant in-state tuition status to undocumented aliens, they must first affirmatively provide for such eligibility, and do so on a residency-neutral basis. Currently, state law provides in-state tuition status based on residency. Several bills have been introduced in the General Assembly that would eliminate residency classification and determine in-state tuition status based on residency-neutral criteria, but none has passed. The question posed by CCHE is whether it has the authority to make such a change, by policy or regulation. As set forth above, CCHE’s authority under the Tuition Classification Act is quite limited, and does not encompass authority to change the criteria by which in-state tuition status is granted. For this reason, I conclude that CCHE lacks statutory authority to establish a policy or regulation granting in-state tuition status to undocumented aliens. Rather, such a determination would require an amendment to the Tuition Classification Act by the General Assembly.”

You should have said, “In sum, despite the federal law that fails the burden of Constitutional adherence, Colorado will not aid and abet illegal aliens, and will not conspire to aid and abet corrupt or unscrupulous federal officials that are attempting to subvert the Constitution. It doesn’t matter whether tuition rates are “residency-neutral” or not, in respect to illegal aliens, since they can’t possibly have a legal residency in ANY state, and be an illegal alien at the same time. Illegal alien foreign nationals become insurgents when they conspire to undermine the laws of the country they have invaded. We have spent billions of dollars fighting illegal alien insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Why on God’s green Earth should we encourage such behavior on American soil when our brothers and sisters, sons and daughters are risking their lives abroad under the guise of protecting our freedoms as U.S. Citizens? You should put every public official in Colorado on notice that you will uphold your oath and not tolerate any further nibbling of the Constitution. I remind you sir of the words of yet another of our Founding Fathers, our first Ambassador,

Benjamin Franklin, who said,

“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”

Take back Colorado, and put America and Americans FIRST! Uphold the Constitution, and stand firm against pandering jackals who are putting the jobs and lives of Americans at risk. Godspeed to you in your efforts to protect the citizens and lawful residents of Colorado.

Jeff Lewis

National Director

FIRE Coalition

Jeff@firecoalition.com

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2008 went by so fast I'm not sure I didn't just dream it all. I must admit though that in as many ways as it seemed like a nightmare, it was also very promising and rewarding. Everyone in the fight against illegal immigration should be encouraged by our accomplishments. Millions of people now know that 287(g) exists. This law has been on the books since 1996. In the past two years scores of law enforcement agencies have signed up for the program.

I can tell you from personal experience that when I began polling law enforcement officers across the country in 2006, 95% or higher had never even heard of 287(g). The FIRE Coalition and countless other groups and individuals across the country worked together, shared information, strategies, and wisdoms gained about real solutions to our nation's problems. That included ways to spread the word about solutions within our grasps. Attrition through enforcement works. 

Now, in the beginning of 2009, my best estimate is that well over 70% of law enforcement officers are aware of the 287(g) program. That didn't happen because the government decided to do its job. It changed because "We the People" informed their discretion as Thomas Jefferson advised we do. Millions more Americans are aware of this program because patriotic Americans made conscious efforts to educate themselves, their families, neighbors, and co-workers. They sacrificed their time, money, and even their sanity at times to bring the real change we need: education.

Directly as a result of patriotic Americans doing their civic duty, state and local governments accelerated doing the job Uncle Sam won't: protecting their citizenry from the poison to our country that the largest invasion in world history has wrought. Don't worry too much about what you hear or don't hear in the mainstream media. If you believe in our constitutional republic, believe in protecting the Constitution and those inalienable rights bestowed by your Creator, then you are NOT in the minority of American citizens. Rest assured your efforts are making historical, measurable differences.

In the grand scheme of things, the truth will set us free from the insanity ignorance has shackled us with. And while we may feel our objectives are monumental and incredibly complex, they are noble. Look in the faces of your children and grandchildren. You will find both the questions and the answers to all that is worrying you. Don't let them down.

2009 will challenge us in ways we never thought existed, and we have a lot of hard work ahead of us. I tell people often that we didn't get in this mess overnight, and we won't get out of it overnight either.

It snowed this week in eastern North Carolina, the most we've had in years. So much for global warming, eh?

Working from home on numerous FIRE Coalition projects this past week, I occasionally would find myself passing by a window and realizing all over again that there was a healthy blanket of snow on the ground. It reminded me of Robert Frost's poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve." Google it if you haven't read it. It's a classic.

I paused each time for a few moments, reflecting on a lifetime of moments in time when a healthy snow on the ground meant exploration, snowmen, and the like. Just as suddenly I would snap back into 2009 and back to my desk I would go, thinking on my way those words made famous by Robert Frost:

"And miles to go before I sleep. And miles to go before I sleep."

As an afterthought: In case being the youngest NFL coach to take his team to the Superbowl wasn't enough, or giving my favorite team the opportunity to be the first team with six Lombardi trophies, Pittsburgh Steelers Coach Mike Tomlin, in the locker room after winning the AFC Championship told his players, despite their success,

"And miles to go before we sleep. And miles to go before we sleep."

I knew I liked this guy. Go Steelers!!

Today, was the first day of a 2-day garage sale my wife and I decided to have to rid ourselves of the junk that accumulates in our house.  What transpired with the very first customer seemed like either a cruel joke or God's encouragement that we must continue to save our country, our heritage, and our culture.

A nice Lincoln SUV approached and while I was still moving things out to the driveway to sell, and my wife was arranging the last few items, the occupants of the vehicle (at least some of them) were perusing our tables.  When I returned outside, I noticed what I thought was power steering fluid leaking out of their SUV.  When I started walking around the car, the father was standing behind their youngest son while the son was urinating near the tire and onto our residential street.  The "power steering fluid" was actually this young boy's urine running down our hill.

I immediately yelled at the father to knock it off and asked him where he thought he was, but was met with just a big, dumb smile.  Meanwhile, the other occupants, the mother and what I presumed to be a grandmother, were just laughing away.  It was then that it occurred to me that these people had never actually responded to any of our greetings or accusations in English.  When I tried again to haze the father, he only spoke broken and unintelligible English.  My wife then told them all to leave and when the mother indicated that she wanted an item, my wife told her to put it down and leave.  We didn't need the money that bad.

These were the real-life example of "family values" that George Bush claims don't stop at the Rio Grande.  This was a perfect example of what has somehow become acceptable behavior as the rest of America sticks their heads in the sand and thinks there is nothing wrong with importing millions of 3rd world peasants into our country that was founded by English-speaking, God-fearing, Bible-believing Christians that based their laws and culture on the Bible.

This is the same country that we are about to lose if individual Americans don't start standing up and saying "NO" whenever they see their laws, culture, and heritage being stripped away before their very eyes.  It is no longer acceptable to say, "I wish someone would do something about this problem" and go back to watching American Idol.  It's about choosing the "harder right" over the "easier wrong". 

Get involved personally.  Whether it's your time or your money that you can give--choose one.  It's your country that's at stake.

Jason Mrochek
Co-founder & Executive Director
FIRE Coalition
http://www.firecoalition.com/