The American Leadership Fund is currently supporting a campaign to raise funds to help pass the Utah Immigration Enforcement Act, and others like it around the nation. The text of the proposed bill is found here and is an improved model of the Arizona law. It will impact other states in the U.S. as well.
“Utah’s Legacy: Preserving the Future” is a statement of principle regarding illegal immigration. If you agree with these principles, please sign up today on the email sign-up tab above. Your generous contribution is welcome by clicking on the American Leadership Fund tab above.
Utah’s Legacy: Preserving the Future
A Principled Imperative
Founding Father, author of The Declaration of Independence, and former United States President Thomas Jefferson said,
“Are there no inconveniences to be thrown into the scale against the advantage expected by a multiplication of numbers by the importation of foreigners? … Suppose 20 millions of republican Americans thrown all of a sudden into France, what would be the condition of that kingdom? … If it would be more turbulent, less happy, less strong, we may believe that the addition of half a million of foreigners to our present numbers would produce a similar effect here.”
Alexander Hamilton maintained the safety of the republic depends,
“…essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment, on a uniformity of principles and habits, on the exemption of the citizens from foreign bias and prejudice, and on that love of country which will almost invariably be found to be closely connected with birth, education and family.”
In 1794, George Washington wisely stated,
“…the policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.”
WE SUPPORT AND DEFEND the U.S. Constitution and its original intent as our basis for resolve.
WE UPHOLD Article VI, that requires both the federal government and the states to work together to uphold the law. When that fails, Article I, Section 10, Clause 3, also gives states the right to defend their borders against “eminent danger.”
WE AFFIRM the original intent of Amendment 14 to apply to the children of slaves who had been freed under Amendment 13, and not to the children of illegal immigrants, as there was no formal immigration law at the time. Under Amendment 10, powers not enumerated to the federal government are given to the states. Setting the qualifications of citizenship, not regulating immigration, was one of those limited, federally-enumerated powers. Read More→
