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Feds abandoned Arizona

The Spokesman-Review

How far will we let this go? The state of Arizona is being threatened by the Justice Department. When I read of this, I reread the U.S. Constitution and found the sections that address this issue.

The United States government has been derelict of their defined duty by refusing to protect the states from an invasion of illegal immigrants. Article IV, Section 4, states, “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion …”

Because the U.S. government won’t protect them, Arizona is exercising their right to defend themselves from invasion and for that the Justice Department is threatening to sue them. The 10th Amendment states, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” This clearly gives the power to the states or the people, unless delegated to the federal government.

Are you willing to live with what will happen to our country if we the people don’t say “no” very quickly and definitively to the federal government?

Dave Miller

Spokane

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