Below is article one section eight of the constitution. I don't see anything in there about treason, do see specific evidence that they are to:
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1. Provide for the common defense
2. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization,
3. and offenses against the law of nations;
4. To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers,
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Now I am just a Texas Redneck, i'm sorta of a simple principle, you follow the guidelines of the constitution and you'll be fine. But to me if you add all those four up, it equates to INS and Border Patrol. Now #4 would seem to provide for them to create organizations to execute the first three, which to my mind would be INS and BP.
Now I am all for a differing opinion, but could you please point me to article and section of the constitution where your view comes from? I'm actually curious, I tore up my application to BP back during the Elian Gonzales fiasco years back because I felt they overstepped their bounds and did what they did as a showboating move; I didn't want to be part of a media fed political organization.
Now years later I have watched with interest and studied what goes on. I don't think it is possible to simply hand it over to the states, you'd end up with some idiot like Davis in CA letting them all in, SARS or no SARS, Smallpox or no Smallpox, terrorist or not. Now the enforcement hasn't been the greatest in the past, I still have reservations about the way some handle it(individual agents I have talked with who let armed groups pass by to avoid a gunfight), but we'll never see it remedied or the border zipped up if all those of ability just let it be and we leave it to folks like Davis to handle it.
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Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And
To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.
