California's unconstitutional attempt to nullify US immigration law

Rep. Tom McClintock:

The Doctrine of Nullification is the assertion that any state government which doesn’t like a federal law is free to violate it. It began with tariff disputes and formed the central legal argument the Southern Confederacy used in its attempt to tear the federal union apart. It ignores the supremacy clause of the Constitution, the enumerated powers of Congress, and the exclusive jurisdiction given to the courts to adjudicate disputes involving the states.

When South Carolina used it in 1832 to ignore a federal tariff, President Andrew Jackson sent warships to Charleston harbor, threatened to hang the instigators and declared that nullification was “incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."

Jackson, and later Lincoln, understood how toxic this doctrine is to the rule of law and to the fundamental principles of federalism. If allowed to stand, the Constitution becomes impotent, our laws become mere suggestions, and the federal union disintegrates.

A century and a half later, this doctrine has re-emerged as the central tenet of the sanctuary movement embraced most conspicuously by California officials.

Like their confederate predecessors, California secessionists assert the Tenth Amendment with no apparent understanding of it. The Tenth Amendment reserves to the states powers not delegated to Congress. Jurisdiction over immigration law is explicitly reserved to Congress and is thus denied to the states. The supremacy clause is equally clear that the laws made within the constitutional authority of the federal government are the supreme laws of the land.

There is good reason for immigration law to be in federal hands. As the attorney general explained in Sacramento, if our immigration laws are not to be enforced, our national borders mean precisely nothing. Nations that either cannot or will not defend their borders simply aren’t around very long. The open borders advocated by California officials are suicidal for any nation.
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I think Democrats in power in California see immigration as a way of staying in power and nullifying the votes of those who disagree with them on immigration.  They have turned California from a Golden State to one that has aspects of a third world country.   What they are doing is a clear violation of the constitution and it is also endangering citizens of the state.  Those responsible should be charged with obstruction of justice.