{"id":172,"date":"2009-12-24T23:50:27","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T23:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=172"},"modified":"2017-03-20T00:12:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-20T00:12:39","slug":"remedial-instructions-to-the-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"Article 14: A. REMEDIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE PRESIDENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the Executive Powers are vested in the President of the United States of America;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the President must take an Oath or Affirmation before executing his office;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, the Oath or Affirmation reads, \u201cI do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States\u201d,<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"> <!--more--> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the People have served their government officials with Petitions for Redress regarding the failure of the government to execute the immigration laws, only to have those Petitions ignored;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution requires the President to \u201ctake Care that the laws be faithfully executed\u201d;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, in May of 2007, on the Floor of the House, Representative Ric Keller (R) stated: \u201cIt is estimated that there are currently more than 20 million illegal immigrants in this country. The cost of illegal immigration to our health care system, public education system, prison system and social services continues to rise without any sign of stopping or slowing.\u201d;<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the presence of no less than 20 million illegal aliens* in the United States is self-evident that the immigration laws are not being enforced,<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>*\u201cDefinition. For purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), any person who is not a citizen or a national of the United States. There are different categories of aliens: resident and nonresident, immigrant and nonimmigrant, asylee and refugee, documented and undocumented (&#8220;illegal&#8221;).\u201d\u00a0 Additionally, \u201cAccording to the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), an alien is an individual who does not have U.S. citizenship and is not a U.S. national. The INA defines a national of the United States as one who, while not a citizen, owes permanent allegiance to the United States. One owes personal allegiance to the United States if that person has taken an oath of naturalization.\u201d<\/em> Cornell University Law School;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: book antiqua,palatino;\"><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, among the laws not being enforced are USC Title 8, Section 237; Section 1324 and Section 1325, and Article IV Section IV which reads: \u201cThe United States shall guarantee to every State in this union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEREAS<\/strong>, the failure of enforcing these laws has cost the nation hundreds of billions of dollars in the last decade alone, and have put the nation at risk of terrorism, crime, and disease,<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOW, THEREFORE<\/strong>, We the People instruct you to fulfill your sworn responsibilities as President to commit the necessary resources to Faithfully Execute all the current immigration laws.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Learn more about the subject matter of this Article. Read the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wethepeoplecongress.org\/00-USConstitution.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">OATH OF OFFICE<\/span><\/a><\/strong> and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wethepeoplecongress.org\/00-USConstitution.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">FAITHFULLY EXECUTE<\/span><\/a><\/strong> Clauses. Read the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.givemeliberty.org\/FreedomDrive\/Redress\/PetitionImmigration.htm\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">PETITION for Redress of Grievances Regarding the Failure of the President to Enforce the Immigration Laws<\/span><\/a><\/strong>. See the related CC 2009 video presentations: Jeff Lewis, National Director of the Federal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Coalition (\u201cFIRE\u201d)- <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Introduction<\/span><\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0 Cory Voorhis and John Sampson, former agents, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (\u201cICE\u201d)- <strong><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Border Realities<\/span><\/em><\/strong>;\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>&#8220;Drug Wars: Silver or Lead&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> <\/span>(film).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHEREAS, the Executive Powers are vested in the President of the United States of America; WHEREAS, the President must take an Oath or Affirmation before executing his office; WHEREAS, pursuant to Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, the Oath or Affirmation reads, \u201cI do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-14-illegal-immigration-and-the-oath-of-office-clause-of-article-two-section-one-and-the-faithfully-execute-clause-of-article-two-section-three-of-the-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cc2009.givemeliberty.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}