Speech #1040123121

The States have no authority in either of those two areas. Second. when the Federal Government fails to carry out its responsibility and to enforce the borders. it is the States and the local communities who have the principal obligations and consequences of that failure. Third. those consequences are heavily focused in about six States. Six States have over 80 percent of those persons who are in the country illegally living within their borders. So. fourth. the consequence of this legislation is to say the Federal Government failed to carry out its exclusive constitutional responsibility: To protect the borders and enforce the immigration laws. allow large numbers-