The United States Constitution

(An Excerpt - Article IV covers the "United States'" (the Federal Government's) relationship with the individual member states.)

Article IV - The States

Section 1 - Each State to Honor all others

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Section 2 - State citizens, Extradition

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.

A Person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.

(No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, But shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.) (This clause in parentheses is superseded by the 13th Amendment.)

Section 3 - New States

New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new States shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.

The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State.

Section 4 - Republican government

The 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.

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Now, I am not a lawyer, not active, retired, disbarred, defrocked, dismembered nor have I ever played a lawyer on TV or on stage. Neither am I a professor of Constitutional Law, nor an associate professor, a tutor, a reader, lecturer, not even a crash-test dummy. (I do have a niece (by marriage) in law school, but since she is not a blood relative, I decline any responsibility for her actions.)

Having established my objectivity and rationality, I wish to point out the above Article IV, Section 4, of the United States Constitution, written by our founders (emphasis added). It seems to legally obligate the Federal Government to provide protection to states which are being invaded.

Not being a legal scholar, I can't be certain of my interpretation of those words. I'm just a retired military officer who spent 26 years protecting one country or another from invasion. I read it as federal troops with weapons on the border to STOP the flow of drugs, criminals, terrorists and free-loading leeches invading the border states.

The obuma regime probably thinks of defense in terms of free condoms and HIV counseling for border-state residents, as well as gun control laws, so that nobody gets hurt.

 "Can't anybody here play this game?"

--Casey Stengel said that too. He died in 1975
but he must have foreseen the coming of the
end of our season.