The president and his open border allies may hate the fact that the Constitution gets in the way of their political agenda, but it's up to Congress to take bold action and stop this lawlessness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Congress is the appropriate place to make laws about our country's immigration policy; it is not something that the president gets to decide on his own.
Dealing with immigration should originate in Congress. The president should not act unilaterally.
Under our constitutional system, the executive executes the laws that Congress has passed. It should not be executing laws that Congress has rejected.
When you're elected to Congress, you take a vow to uphold the Constitution and its system of checks and balances. That vow doesn't say, 'Unless it's politically uncomfortable.'
There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality.
Border security is a complex issue and will remain a top priority during the 2007 legislative year. As Congress works to fix this problem, I will continue to push for strong measures that beef up security at our borders.
Historically, Congress hasn't paid much attention to the confines the Constitution establishes.
We all want our border to be secure. However, certain individuals use this argument to stop us from ever enacting immigration reform.
Certainly, the president is expected to safeguard the Constitution by vetoing unconstitutional acts of Congress. This is especially true because many laws can only be brought before the courts in a collateral way, if at all.
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.