Dear Editor:
Illegal immigration is someone's unauthorized entry into a country; in other words, someone has improperly crossed a border. The public has a mixed opinion about immigration no borders, open borders, enforce the borders. Do you know the United States of America never had a border?
When the Constitution for the USA was under consideration to be ratified by conventions of the several states, it was not known how many of the states would join; nor was it known how many more states, and their locations, would be added to this union. The border of the United States of America was actually the borders (plural) of the several contiguous states which made up the USA. Each state constitution had a surveyor's description of the state; together, these surveyor descriptions added up to make the overall border of the USA. Any treaties with foreign governments for acquisition of land, such as the Louisiana Purchase, could only be for the eventual formation of new states such as Missouri. Missouri's Constitution of 1820 has a surveyor's description of its boundary.
After the cessation of hostilities of the Civil War, a second state constitution was proposed in 1865 and it had no state boundary. In 1875, another state constitution was proposed and it only declared the boundary previously adopted by law was the boundary without any specifics. In 1945, another constitution was proposed and it has no boundary. Many other states have quietly dropped any description of a boundary from their constitutions.
In other states such as Arizona, the public has amended its constitution to allow the state legislature to modify the boundary of the state. Although there is still a surveyor's description in their constitution, they have reduced the constitutional mandate to be merely statutory under the discretion of the legislature. Even though the state legislature has or has not made any modifications to the boundary, there is no longer a requirement for them to protect Arizona as a state.
Even a well-designed machine needs routine maintenance to see that all parts are in place and functioning properly. The public has not paid sufficient attention to changes made in both the USA Constitution and their state constitutions. In this case, the door to unrestricted immigration and world government is wide open.
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