States Can Now Legally Secede – Endanger Federal Tax System

by Xelan Bonn 

May 10, 2007    (Updated 11:00 PM EST) (see also Girlie-Man news article)

WASHINGTON DC

Illegal immigration has escalated to such a degree that it can no longer be considered merely a minor nuisance or law enforcement issue but rather has reached a level that is threatening the cohesiveness of the United States itself, giving some states the legal right to secede from the Union or legally withhold federal taxes or both.

Article IV Section 4 of the US Constitution states: 

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion . . .

While the Articles of Confederation were the basis of forming the Union, and where White vs. Texas (1869) set a highly controversial and challengeable decision denying states the right to secede from the Union, many legal tools and remedies are open to the states, which still includes secession—for the Articles of Confederation (and Constitution) are subject to contract law (and other laws) and the federal government is clearly in breach—among a myriad of other legal approaches and potential remedies still open to the states that have been technically invaded by foreigners, and specifically Mexico.[i]

Few critics would deny the fact that ¼ of a million people from a single foreign sovereignty who might enter the United States illegally for any reason, other than to escape a natural catastrophe or political assassination, would not otherwise be considered an invasion-size force, whether the group meant harm or not, were militarily armed or not (by the way, anyone can become armed either in Mexico or the US, whether here legally or not---criminals the world over have no shortage of resources for acquiring weapons illegally, even in countries where guns are banned). The legal key for the states is whether or not they can prove "harm" and "invasion." In the Patriot Society report  OPERATION SAFE AMERICA, such facts and realities have been adequately documented and proven on behalf of all US citizens. 

When the Constitutional Article was originally written, 25,000 invaders would have been considered a strong force and certainly invasion-size. Yet today, we have anywhere from 12-20-30+ million illegal aliens (although many journalist refuse to report these fact-based numbers) on US soil (as many as 85% from Mexico)—clearly and undeniably, an invasion size force has entered the US and is doing harm to many states individually and collectively and the US federal government is not protecting them or US citizens. 

Harm to the states and citizens has been documented in a variety of ways, including economically, politically, culturally, socially, criminally, tax losses, direct and indirect costs, or otherwise (including the death of over 9,000 people a year at the hands of illegal aliens) while unenforcement of immigration laws is maintaining an effective shield that protects thousands of hidden (potential) terrorists, effectively aiding and abetting them to kill Americans. 

The mass importation of poverty via unchecked illegal alien trespass has dramatically escalated crime across the country and drained many public resources nearly dry, among other detriments. The negative impacts on US citizens is staggering---one troubling reality is that over 250 child sex offenders per month are now illegal aliens, according to the Operation Safe America report.

There is also a strong potential for sedition threat in many states, as we have seen from mass marches perpetrated by largely illegal aliens (who violate Constitutional laws that clearly prohibit foreigners from demonstrating or lobbying toward affecting political influence on US soil---a right strictly reserved for US citizens). Such large groups could easily find themselves manipulated by foreign enterprise or government and could become a dangerous element in US society through mob action or even declared war.

However, the mass invasion of the US and many states appears to be a purposeful and planned event by the US leadership and aided by the federal government, and such facts and realities give the states the legal impetus they need to affect remedy secessions.

In 2002, during secret meetings between President Bush and President Fox of Mexico (which are fully documented and reported), the pair agreed to the general principles for creating the North American Union (NAU)---an alleged scheme to dismantle the United States and Constitution put forward by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and its policies adopted in blanket by the White House. The plan would add US land mass, population, and infrastructure to a new sovereign nation, which would include the land masses, infrastructure, and people of Canada and Mexico under a new Constitution and NO BILL OF RIGHTS. The precursor to this dismantling plan are the successive treaties of NAFTA, CAFTA, the NAFTA Superhighway, other free trade and lesser known policies and agreements (including the revamping of hundreds of thousands of US laws and regulations designed to seamlessly mesh with Mexican and Canadian laws) that are all designed to blur the lines of sovereignty toward aiding and easing the creation of the NAU. The smoking gun of this plan, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) was formalized and offered to the public in 2005 (signed in Waco, Texas by the leaders of all three countries), and is available for public review [http://www.spp.gov/]. 

In a closed door ceremony at the White House, the Presidents of the US, Canada, and Mexico placed their signatures on what appears a treasonous document (SPP), which made illegal immigration "legal" in spirit by agreeing in principle that the US borders would be expanded to include a "common perimeter" around North America, encompassing Mexico and Canada to the free flow of trade and labor (e.g. therefore,  illegal immigration laws were not to be enforced by the federal government via White House directives--a separate and distinct illegal dictate).

However, in 2002, Prs. Bush agreed with Prs. Fox (by Prs. Fox's public admission to a crowd in Mexico) that immigration enforcement would be halted in the US, according to his new agreement with Prs. Bush. Indeed, a study of US immigration enforcement shows a clear major decline from 2002 forward to May 2007. Compared to past decades of statistics pre 2002, immigration enforcement is relatively non-existent today. Such an act by a standing President of the United States is not only criminal (as it seeks to bypass Congress, and illegally nullify federal laws put in place by Congress, among other things), but the overriding SPP agreement with President Fox now provides law enforcement with the hard evidence is needs to clearly support formal charges against the White House that are conspiratorial, complicit, anti-Constitutional, and shockingly treasonous, if legal formal investigations bear out--as the document seeks to establish a precedent whereby US sovereignty is dismantled by extending its borders across those of a foreign nation that, too, must gain its portion of sovereign control over the US citizenry in such an overlapping exchange or sharing of territories. The intent of the SPP document is clear when coupled with the realities and actions of all three nations toward further embracing these illicit goals---illegal immigration non-enforcement clearly a major piece of evidence for any high court to consider.

Sovereignty is like pregnancy, either you have it or you do not. If another nation or organization controls your laws, trade, movement of labor, immigration, etc. or accesses your citizen's programs, like Social Security, etc. then you have given away sovereignty, for you no longer control your own country's affairs unilaterally. The SPP not only shifts power to foreign sovereignties through the guise of increase commerce and free trade (all of which is designed to erode the middle-class toward more easily installing the NAU), but also redefines national borders (symbolically at first)--this is a highly illegal act and all such acts are not only unconstitutional, but technically unenforceable and void when not specially ratified by Congress--and in this case, not even Congress could ratify such an anti-constitutional act. The problem is, that government agencies and federal and even state personnel are acting as though the laws and policies pushed downward due to the SPP are real and valid, so the end game wins no matter what---and Americans and their children lose their country!

Together, these acts by the White House and federal government and others, combined with the impacts of illegal immigration in their respective states, gives the states the needed legal corpus delicti required to pursue secession and/or remedy from the federal government and Congress from invasion. 

California, for example, which contributes the largest share of taxes to the US federal government, and has had to endure more than its fair share of illegal immigration problems, could reasonably declare secession from the United States and thereby withhold all further tax payments to the federal government until the case was settled, (if even contested by the federal government). As California’s equivalent of a gross domestic product as a country would exceed that of the remaining United States combined, this could be a windfall for Californians and a severe blow to the US economy and tax system. However, California would then be free to oust all illegal invaders at will and would have the money and authority to do it!

The federal government would have no choice but to either uphold its Constitutionally mandated requirements and clear the invasion to protect California and its citizens (and other states) or suffer the consequences of a legal loss of that state (and others) from the Union. Such a legal defense price tag would be overwhelming to the federal government, which would likely lose in the final analysis.

This might require a game of political hardball but it is an historical opportunity—one that may never be repeated for generations. And nobody has proven their ability to go to the mat and win better than Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California—a man who plays to win and rarely loses—not someone Congress could take lightly if he played this straight flush hand of events and laws and exercised the state’s legal rights on behalf of taxpayers (who are desperate in that state to balance their debts). If the other hard-affected states acted in unison with California, the federal government would soon have to dance to their tune or risk the dissolution of part of, or much of, the Union.

Amnesty in all its forms, (i.e. path to citizenship, temporary work permits, etc.) rather than deportation of all illegal aliens, (whether criminals, terrorist, suspected terrorists, seditionists, Mexican nationals, other foreign nationals, taxpayer services and resource siphons, workers stealing American jobs or devaluing wages, etc.), or the giving of rewards to foreign invaders, is not legally “protection from invasion.” It would be, and is considered, a direct violation of Article IV, Section 4 of the US Constitution as it would sanction invasion and impose even further costs and other negative impacts on many states rather than abating the invasion and its negative impacts protected against (specified and implied) in the Constitutional rights of states.

Not only has the United States, its President, and Congress failed to protect states like Texas, New Mexico, New York, Arizona, Illinois, Georgia, Massachusetts, and many others from being invaded, it has no legal authority to sanction such a mass invasion through “amnesty” or "path to citizenship" acts—in fact, the Constitution appears to specifically deny both the Congress and President from such an act and requires the federal government to take immediate steps to remedy the invasion or stand in breach of Statehood protection clauses as well as laws regarding treason.

The issue would be hotly contested in a new era high court battle, but if Californians rallied behind Governor (pending President) Schwarzenegger, the federal government could not hope to win regardless of the federal challenges to the White vs. Texas ruling—a ruling that would be overturned in any court whereby the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, President, and Federal government were unable to select either the venue, judge, or jury toward potentially swaying or influencing proceedings in great favor against California (and other states) or citizens, in my opinion.

In any event, the impacted states need only threaten secession and place the federal government on official notice in order to not only force federal protection from the invasion clause, but to legally recapture state and civil loses paid for such invasion impacts—the collective force of two or more states attempting such a maneuver would require an emergency session of Congress in order to once and for all resolve illegal immigration and open border issues—the states actually have the upper-hand on Congress, if they work in unison and combine their legal attack on the federal government. 

Fast, Inexpensive, Humane Illegal Immigration Remedy...

The cost effective and humane remedy for the federal government is quite obvious and simple for the Congress---declare a mass "temporary amnesty period" for all illegal aliens in order to give all illegal aliens a chance to lawfully self-remove themselves from US soil (about 6 months to a year), then after a set date, declare all those on US soil illegally (or entering illegally) to be "felony trespassers" subject to harsh criminal (federal or state) prosecution that includes mandatory "hard labor" sentences with subsequent mandatory deportation and permanent barring from all future access to US soil or programs---setting a clear deterrent to future invaders. Of course, then there is the terrorist threat that still looms so the borders must still be sealed. This can be achieved in less than 60 days by simply funding (sufficiently) local border Sheriffs (in all border states) so they can handle any slack areas along the border that are not secured by the US Border Patrol (the Sheriff is already manned and capable of gearing up within 30 to 45 days to fully protect the US border, while all other remedies would take years to set-up and complete, including adding more trained Border Patrol agents). Laws would have to be revamped to ensure that all law enforcement along the border could use lethal force (if needed to preserve life) and aggressively hunt down and capture any and all would-be trespassers without fear of creating an international incident. As Mexico stands in current violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe, having encouraged and allowed so many of its citizens to enter the US illegally (invade), negotiations should be short and sweet (unless Mexico wants to forfeit all its assets, including its oil fields, under such a treaty violation by giving it country back to the United States whose flags once flew over the Mexican Capitol after than country lost a major war and its sovereignty).

In less than 10 days, the Congress, using these simple solutions, could quickly resolve many terrible issues on behalf of the wellbeing of states and all Americans and their Constitution.

[See Safe America Act for additional remedy proposals]

Taking Control...

As the federal government has failed to protect the states from invasion deliberately, the federal government’s authority over the states may be effectively suspended by the states and the states could invoke their own set of legal actions under their State Constitutions, without regard for the federal or US Constitutional laws (still working, of course, within state laws). Noteworthy—during a legally invoked act of secession, federal laws and authority would likely no longer be valid in any state proceeding with the secession until the case was considered closed—the state guard could even rally against federal forces, secure federal buildings, and remove federal agents from state soil or secure international borders (around all sides of the state/nation) and even cease control of ports of entry (although we recommend the governors take all due precautions and due diligence before proceeding with any such drastic actions, or even secession---consult qualified attorneys, if you can find one on this rare case subject matter).

Federal Fund Windfall Potential For Some States

As long as those state who have been invaded petition the federal government for relief from the invasion, and document the date when the invasion could reasonably be assumed to have started (arbitrarily, when about 10,000 illegal invaders first entered the state), all costs and other impacts (including private civil claims) incurred by the state (and its citizens) since the time of the invasion would likely be considered “harm to the states” and technically 100% reimbursable, including all costs associated with returning the states to a condition that existed prior to the invasion (such as restoring hospitals that fell victim to cost impacts from uninsured aliens, etc.). Citizens who were harmed, or had loved ones harmed by illegal aliens (invaders), could press their civil cases toward recapturing both actual and punitive costs and couple their claims with the state. The federal government could either chose to pay the claims itself, or secure the assets and funds from the invading countries found at fault---in this case Mexico would bear the largest burden of debt if so imposed. 

In the case of Mexico, the federal government need only place Mexico on formal alert to abate its invasion of the US and then simply present a bill to Mexico to cover the cost of reparations. If Mexico resists or fails to pay its bill, the US then has the legal right to invade Mexico and oust its leadership and take control of its assets, including its oil fields. Such a ploy is obviously undesirable, however, the fact that the US has these legal rights gives it great authority and negotiation position strength over Mexico toward resolving these issues in a more friendly manner that benefits the American people and helps Mexico to become more of friend and neighbor rather than a antagonizing adversary than it is currently.

The states that have been invaded should conduct detailed investigations and accounting of all costs directly and indirectly linked to illegal aliens and their invasion of the state then present a bill, along with reasonable interest, to the federal government for immediate payment. In the event the federal government fails to pay the amounts due, the states would be legally able to withhold all federal taxes until the claim was satisfied before officially dropping secession pursuits. This could be as much as $1 trillion dollars or more for states like California and its citizens, and perhaps another $4 trillion for all the other states impacted and combined.

Constitutional Secession Also Viable Alternative For States

A further right to secession may also lie in the White House's and federal government’s dismantling of the US Constitution under which the states originally agreed to abide. If the states can prove that the US Constitution is longer considered a valid document or authority by the federal government, then the right of secession may also exist on the bases that the Union and its guarantees no longer exists and that all such agreements of statehood are therefore null, void, and unenforceable, giving the states legal independence and sovereignty. Such evidence is presentable through the Security and Prosperity Partnership agreement signed by President Bush which outlines the removal of US borders and places new borders around the circumference of North America, which, in effect, is an attempt to dissolve US sovereignty and replace it with foreign control by the leaders of Mexico and Canada, as well as the US--a clearly unconstitutional act that apparently assumes a void US Constitution---technically a treasonable offense by a US president under current law.

Constitutional protectionist are now arguing across the country that many laws, domestic and international, such as the Patriot Act, John Warner National Defense Act (2007), Military Commission Act (2006), Security and Prosperity Partnership (aka North American Union), scores of international treaties disguised as trade agreements (many by "fast track Presidential authority"), United Nations and NATO agreements, and hundreds more have rendered the US Constitution negligible, void, and meaningless. 

Congress's "amnestying" of illegal aliens in an effort to sanction mass invasion would also show valid proof that the Congress itself did not recognize the Constitution as a valid document, lending great evidence in advance of this proposition.

As Constitution is a contract not only between the people and US government, but between the federal government and the states, the states may find themselves seceding from the Union and adopting an amended US Constitution as their new state Constitutions with great admiration and support from their citizens.

Of course, the states all have had, and still have, the ability to secede by majority mandate of their citizens without the need for federal or international legal review---as the US military and National Guard is all but non-existent on US soil today (due to foreign wars), any one state or more states could easily rally their citizen militias and simply win secession through a symbolic show of unified force. In the event the NAU is forced on Americans unilaterally by the federal government with or without Congressional approval, this may be the only ditch effort remedy left to the states and US citizens in securing their Constitutional liberties and rights. Let us all hope this choice is never needed or applied.

Congress is reminded of its legally required federal duty to protect the states and their citizens from such mass foreign invasion and to preserve the Constitution, even by reversing illegal or sanctioned trade or Presidential agreements or orders, whether international or domestic, already set in place—and if not forthcoming with sound remedy, could have grave consequences for the Union itself, among many other detrimental aspects—dereliction of duty not a valid excuse for Congressional members.

Xelan Bonn is president and founder of the Patriot Union of America, holds an MBA, and has over 30 years experience in business and consulting experience across multiple industries and disciplines. Send direct press comments or inquiries to news@patriounion.org

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North American Union (Americans losing their country, rights, and standard of living---poverty for all, just a couple of decades away!)

Learn more about the SPP/NAU on the PUA Web site in the coming weeks and months. The PUA has teams of independent researchers across the country gathering information on the NAU and will be reporting on this subject in the coming weeks and months so return regularly for updates and critical information. If you have information on the NAU, please forward it to news@patriotunion.org SUBJECT: NAU so that we can publish it on our Web site or link.

OPERATION SAFE AMERICA, is a MUST READ for all Americans and is available free of charge to the public. This comprehensive 249 page report with over 380 quality references covers many critical areas of concern for all US citizens and includes subjects such as: 

          Illegal immigration

          Domestic terrorism

          Border security

          SPP / NAU / Council On Foreign Relations / Trilateral Commission / European Union

          and US citizen worker protections, and more. 

Immigration Versus Alien Trespass

Note that the US has the single most generous "legal immigration" system in the world, allowing between 2 million and 5 million people to legally enter and work in the US annually through a variety of processes and worker programs. This is more immigration than all the other countries of the world combined! So called "illegal immigration" is a criminal act that refuses to accept this basic fact or respect US laws or sovereignty or Americans. The US, like all countries, has the sovereign right and duty to control its own immigration policies and not have them forced on Americans by foreigners. “Illegal alien trespass” is the imposing of a criminal will and intent on the people of America and their laws---it is an unlawful slap in the face to Americans that says, in essence, “I do not care about your laws, or who I harm in the process, I’m coming in, taking what I can, and doing as I please whether you like it or not.” If Americans sanction "illegal alien trespass", then they sanction anarchy and lawlessness and that signals the beginning of the end for America. America is your home Americans---do you let strangers come into your home and tell you what’s what… Is that what we want to teach our children?

Note To Journalist

The PUA remains bewildered as to why the vast majority of America's major news media and most journalist across the nation refuse to use fair, balanced, and accurate reporting and  nomenclature in their reporting on this subject, and why they often maintain support for corrosive policies that embrace criminal acts, illegality, racism, discrimination, and the undermining of rule-of-law (anarchy). It is not anti-American or racists, etc. to want to preserve and protect one's own country and the collective future of Americans and their children. Journalist are encouraged to immerse themselves in this subject toward becoming more neutral and balanced in their reporting, instead of succumbing to the emotional appeals of these issues against America and Americans that are meant to blind the public against the harsh realities of open borders and illegal alien trespasses. Such blind or emotional support for the criminalized form of immigration and its impacts or risk exposures is not only unprofessional and irresponsible, it also promotes a false atmosphere of security in the public and aids and abets the terrorists aspects of this issue---for illegal immigration and open borders are allowing untold numbers of terrorists to enter the US and plot and plan their acts while Americans waste their time debating how to help criminal trespassers---do not aid the process, whereby the next American who gives their life to domestic terrorism (the next 9/11 event) has you to thank, in part, for the deaths---please! It could be your child in the movie house or mall on that tragic day…Report the facts and investigate---find the news instead of waiting for it to come to you on a silver platter---be professional.

Immigrants Versus Illegal Aliens

An immigrant is anyone who LAWFULLY enters the US and applies for citizenship or legal residency. Crossing the US border illegally is a criminal event (misdemeanor, and if done twice, a felony), hence the appropriate law enforcement term "illegal alien" (the person may or may not have any intentions of immigrating, as demonstrated by many statistics and reports---the person may be a gang member, drug or human trafficker, migrant or temporary worker, even a tourist, etc. all of which have no intentions of becoming US citizens---hence the term "immigrant" as a blanket term is always inaccurate and agenda-filled). The same is true of the term “undocumented immigrants,” etc. and would actually be a deceit in most cases, as most illegal aliens have documents---illegally forged or fraudulent documents! Just use the generic and accurate term, “illegal alien.” And if you upset anyone in the foreign national community or anti-Americans, know that it is okay to offend foreigners and anti-Americans if the truth be served to law abiding Americans—that is more politically correct than lying and deceitful reporting with a hidden agenda.

Journalist Are Prejudice Against Immigrants?

Please do not cause further harm, disparagement, or prejudice against LEGAL immigrants" by lumping them together with criminal offenders (illegal aliens) by simply using the obfuscating and agenda-based terminology "immigrant" to describe these two distinct groups as a single group in your reporting. When you do so, you are promoting an agenda that seeks to blur facts and groups  as well as promote illegal activity by glossing it with a verbal paint that makes such illegal acts "acceptable" behavior while tainting those who follow our laws with all the negative brushstrokes encompassed in the illegal alien crisis---it's not only unfair to legal immigrants, but harmful, if not spiteful so please show some respect. Legal immigrants are “immigrants” and illegal aliens are” illegal aliens” or "illegal alien trespassers--- never use the term “ illegal immigrants” (as many illegal aliens are not intending to become US citizens either and under the law, would not be allowed to immigrate legally in most cases, having shown themselves as lawbreakers by trespassing our borders).

Invasion and Patriotism

Mass invasion of the US is no laughing matter and it is certainly nothing any US citizen should be promoting so please show respect for all Americans, legal immigrants, and America’s children and their right to inherent the country their forefathers fought and died to protect---the country American soldiers paid for with their blood and body parts in order to secure for all of us! If you cannot respect that sacrifice and your country and its history and its citizens and place them all above other countries and people, then you need to find another country with people that you to live in that you can respect in such a way---for you cannot waive two flags and be patriotic and loyal to two countries---chose one and be proud! And if you chose America, then protect her as best you can, and at the very least, do not stand in the way of others trying to protect her! Being patriotic on behalf of fellow Americans is politically correct, always! Supporting foreigners over Americans is anti-American and if you're anti-American, you're in the wrong the country---your opinion is not valid and will not be respected by patriotic Americans who know enough to place Americans and America first.

Americans, more than ever, must now stand together and stick up for their families, their children's future, for themselves, their Constitution, and for America and her liberty torch whose flame is under great attack by well-funded foreigners, big business, big news media and many journalist---people who could care less about what's good for America and Americans---so please take the time to learn, beware, and join the fight!

Employment Discrimination

Across America, employers of large to small companies, many household names, are now taking workplace discrimination to heights not seen since the pre-1960 Civil Right movement. 

Thousands of employers now routinely exclude Blacks, Asians, White, and other minorities in order to hire and maintain Spanish speaking Latino workforces that often consist of 90% or more illegal aliens. Industries such as construction, film making, oil rigging, hospitality, restaurant, landscaping, and others are routinely excluding English only Americans in lieu of broken English-full Spanish workforces predominantly consisting of employees from Latin American races. The trend is accelerating and promises to get worse in the event illegal aliens in the US are given "amnesty", signaling to many employers that such discrimination practices will be tolerated and embraced! 

What would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. think about this development in American history!