On this July 4th 2011

The UPA Declares it’s Independence from our own Federal Government

On this Fourth of July in 2011 the UPA would like to take the liberty of declaring on behalf of the patriots of America our Constitutional Independence from the Federal Government.

We will henceforth move forward to only accept the powers of the Federal Government as prescribed in our Constitution.

Restoring sovereignty to the States and H.R. 2164

We can begin this endeavor by having all the individuals and groups that support Tenth Amendment issue and Sovereignty issue join with the immigration control movement to amend a “shovel ready” bill recently introduced by Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) H.R. 2164, titled the Legal Workforce Act (E-Verify)., by removing the preemption language that prevents the states from fully enforcing the bill.

” the federal government, in its unfettered discretion, may prevent the states from conducting any immigration enforcement, no matter how threatened the states may be by illegal immigration and no matter how resolutely the president refuses to address such threats.”

“This leaves the states at the mercy of Big Brother for their internal defense, and that is a huge problem. The right of self-defense is a core aspect of sovereignty. If the states no longer have it, they are no longer sovereign, meaning the foundational assumption of our constitutional system no longer obtains.”
A quote from Winning the Case, Losing the Principle by Andrew McCarthy

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268341/winning-case-losing-principle-andrew-c-mccarthy

Throwing the States off the Field

By Kris Kobach June 19, 2011

The state laws that I have assisted in drafting and have defended in court – whether in Arizona, Alabama, Missouri, or elsewhere – were never conceived by their sponsors as a way of prodding the federal government to act. They were, as Andrew correctly points out, enacted to protect their citizens against very real problems.

The state laws protect the states’ citizens against unfair competition for jobs, protect legal workers against wage depression caused by illegal labor, and protect taxpayers against the high fiscal burdens caused by illegal immigration.

For all of these reasons, unless the preemption language is removed from HR-2164, the bill must be defeated.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270003/throwing-states-field-kris-kobach

Winning the Case, Losing the Principle
To be sure, the validation of a state’s ability to shut down the employment magnet is essential if illegal immigration is to be reduced from a crisis to a nuisance. But this judicial validation is based on the whim of Congress rather than the inherent power of sovereign states. That is not very reassuring: If the years 2007 through 2010 taught us anything, it is that a Congress in the grip of ideology can and will govern against the will of the majority.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/268341/winning-case-losing-principle-andrew-c-mccarthy

Phyllis Schlafly
Lamar Smith’s E-Verify Bill Must Be Amended
6/28/2011
H.R. 2164 forbids the states from using their constitutional power to revoke licenses from businesses that hire illegal aliens unless there has been “a showing by the Secretary of Homeland Security, by clear and convincing evidence, that the employer had knowledge that an employee is an unauthorized alien.” There is no likelihood that an Obama administration will prosecute employers who use E-Verify but fail to fire the illegals, or who contract out part of their workforce to circumvent the system.
http://townhall.com/columnists/phyllisschlafly/2011/06/28/lamar_smiths_e-verify_bill_must_be_amended

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