Federal Govenment's Responsibility

Our founding fathers recognized the importance of the individual State's rights as well as the importance of a strong central or Federal Government. Ultimately if there is a conflict, the Federal law supersedes State law. Therefore it is the Federal Government's responsibility to enforce Federal law. Seems simple enough. It seems puzzling that so called "Sanctuary Cities" have been permitted to exist from coast to coast. The Wikipedia definition is : "A sanctuary city is a term given to a city in the United States that follows certain practices that protect illegal immigrants. These practices can be explicit (de jure) or they can be implicit (de facto). The term generally applies to cities that do not allow municipal funds or resources to be used to enforce federal immigration laws, usually by not allowing police or municipal employees to inquire about ones immigration status." The key words here are "protect illegal" and "do not allow...enforce federal immigration laws". We are not even speaking of a State's rights VS. The Federal Government, these are individual Cities circumventing Federal authority. San Francisco has taken this idea even further. The City has just started an advertising campaign using billboards, TV ads, Radio spots, and printed brochures to announce it's status as a Sanctuary City for illegal aliens. The most egregious fact of this campaign is that it being funded by taxpayers money. So in sum, public funds are being used to publicize and protect lawbreaking, non-citizens in defiance of Federal Law. WOW!!! The Federal Government must seize control of San Francisco and arrest it's Mayor Gavin Newsom. The euphemism for this activity is "Sanctuary City" and Americans ultimately will not be fooled by word games. An "undocumented worker" is really an illegal alien and a "Free Speech Zone" is an attack on your First Amendment rights. In 1957 when the governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, sent in the Arkansas National Guard to "maintain law and order" by keeping the black students out of school, President Eisenhower Federalized the Arkansas Guard and sent in Federal Troops to restore the student's rights and the rule of Federal Law. I know we will not even get anything close to that kind of action today unless citizens begin to put the "We" back into "We The People".

Some links to other related articles on immigration and our Constitutional rights:

"Hide And Go Seek" "1984"
"Champion Of The Second Amendment"
"Immigration: Losing The Middle Ground"