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SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 111<br /> – Illegal immigration crisis

SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 111

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SJM111.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - Stating findings of the Legislature and emphatically
urging the President of the United States and Congress to honor their oaths
of office and pass the necessary and appropriate legislation to resolve the
illegal immigration crisis.

03/10    Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
03/11    Rpt prt - to 10th Ord
03/12    10th Ord - ADOPTED - voice vote
    Floor Sponsor - McKague
    Title apvd - to House
03/12    House intro - 1st rdg - to St Aff
03/18    Rpt out - rec d/p - to 2nd rdg
03/19    2nd rdg - to 3rd rdg
03/27    3rd rdg - ADOPTED - voice vote
    Floor Sponsor - Hart
    Title apvd - to Senate
03/27    To enrol - Rpt enrol - Pres signed
03/28    Sp signed
03/31    To Secretary of State

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  ]]]]              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ]]]]
 Fifty-ninth Legislature                   Second Regular Session - 2008

                                                                       

                                       IN THE SENATE

                               SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 111

                                 BY STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

  1                                   A JOINT MEMORIAL
  2    TO THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED  STATES  IN  CONGRESS
  3        ASSEMBLED,  AND  TO THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION REPRESENTING THE STATE OF
  4        IDAHO IN THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.

  5        We, your Memorialists, the Senate and the House of Representatives of  the
  6    State  of  Idaho  assembled  in  the Second Regular Session of the Fifty-ninth
  7    Idaho Legislature, do hereby respectfully represent that:

  8        WHEREAS, Section 4, Article 4 of the United States Constitution  declares:
  9    "The  United  States shall guarantee to every state in this Union a republican
 10    form of government, and shall protect each of them against  invasion;  and  on
 11    application  of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature can
 12    not be convened) against domestic violence."; and
 13        WHEREAS, even conservative estimates of the number of  illegal  immigrants
 14    residing  in  the  United  States range from twelve million to twenty million,
 15    with some estimates as high as thirty million; and
 16        WHEREAS, the illegal entry into the United States by tens of  millions  of
 17    illegal  immigrants  approaches  ten  percent  of this nation's population and
 18    should be considered an invasion; and
 19        WHEREAS, the federal government has allowed this illegal immigration inva-
 20    sion to occur at an accelerating pace for the last several decades; and
 21        WHEREAS, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the  Security
 22    and  Prosperity  Partnership  of North America (SPP) are being used to nullify
 23    the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.
 24        NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the members of the Second  Regular  Ses-
 25    sion  of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the House of Repre-
 26    sentatives concurring therein, that we  emphatically  urge  and  petition  the
 27    President  of the United States and the Congress of the United States and par-
 28    ticularly the congressional delegation representing  the  state  of  Idaho  to
 29    honor  their  oath  of  office  to "support and defend the Constitution of the
 30    United States" by passing the necessary and appropriate legislation to resolve
 31    the illegal immigration crisis by:
 32        (1)  Securing our national borders;
 33        (2)  Stopping  illegal immigration, including  the  ending  of  government
 34        incentives for illegal immigration; and
 35        (3)  Immediately  implementing a guest-worker program that requires guest-
 36        workers to apply for  work  visas  and  that  establishes  compliance  and
 37        enforcement standards.
 38        BE  IT  FURTHER  RESOLVED  that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
 39    hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
 40    ident of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
 41    House of Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation  repre-
 42    senting the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact



                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                            RS17949C2

The purpose of this legislation is to send the message to the
Congress of the United States, and particularly the congressional
delegation representing the State of Idaho that the Second Regular
Session of the Fifty-ninth Idaho Legislature, the Senate and the
House of Representatives concurring therein, that the Congress of
the United States, and particularly the congressional delegation
representing the State of Idaho, are hereby urged and petitioned to
honor their oath of office to "support and defend the Constitution
of the United States" by:

     (1) Securing our national borders;

     (2) Stopping illegal immigration, including the ending of
     government incentives for illegal immigration; and

     (3) Immediately implementing a guest-worker program that
     requires guest-workers to apply for work visas and that
     establishes compliance and enforcement standards.


                           FISCAL NOTE

None.




Contact
Senator Shirley McKague 
Phone: 208-332-1339
Senator Monty Pearce
Senator Mel Richardson
Senator Lee Heinrich
Senator Mike Jorgenson
Representative JoAn Wood
Representative Marv Hagedorn
Representative Phil Hart


STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/FISCAL NOTE                       SJM 111