Mike Delph - Stand With Arizona

Let me be blunt, as if I never am, and ask the question that should be asked:

Should Indiana 'Stand With Arizona' ?

This Saturday, August 21st, 5:00pm at Woodland Park, 2100 Willowland Rd, Portage, IN we will have an opportunity to answer just that question here in NW Indiana.

State Senator Mike Delph, whom I have come to respect, will be in town proposing that question. Mr. Delph has proposed this question before as he has in the past introduced legislation similar to Arizona's.

However, the Justice Department and the Federal Government are arguing that the Arizona Statute is unconstitutional. The 14th Amendment empowers the Feds to restrain the States, through litigation, when they see the States superseding their constitutional boundaries. In 1939 the State of Pennsylvania enacted legislation requiring all aliens to register with the State as they were concerned with Nazi sympathizer, locating them and detaining them. Of course, the law made it to the Supreme Court where it was struck down. The reason, for the same reason that Arizona law is unconstitutional, is because when States join this union they give up their ability to deal with foreign nations and foreign nationals. That is strictly Federal domain. Essentially, this falls under the supremacy clause and even tho I am a strong defender of State Sovereignty, dealing with foreign governments and foreign nationals is strictly a Federal domain.

Be this as it may, I do agree with enacting Arizona style legislation for it serves as a wake up call to the Federal Government that it is time to take this problem seriously. For if they don't, it leaves one ultimate option to the States:

Threaten Succession

It is of my opinion, regardless of whether Arizona's legislation is constitutional or not, that Indiana and other States of the union should take steps like this to wake the Feds up.

So I'm asking all the readers to support Mike Delph and Shawn Olson this Saturday in Portage by 'Standing with Arizona' !!!