Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake unveiled a border security plan aimed at circumventing the federal government through the creation of an interstate compact.
Titled “Defend Arizona: We will do what Washington will not,” her plan will bring states together to use Article I, Section 10 of the U.S. Constitution to “declare their territories as under invasion and declare it their sovereign right to secure the borders of the United States.” Lake told The Arizona Sun Times, “The people of Arizona and the people of this country are dying to have real solutions to bring sanity and the security back to the border.”
A record number of migrants – up 2,405% – are currently crossing Arizona’s border with Mexico in the Yuma sector, and a higher than normal percentage of them have criminal backgrounds. Gov. Doug Ducey sent troops and officers to the border in 2021, and earlier this month, Yuma Mayor Douglass Nichols declared an emergency there.
Lake’s plan, which she would like to see implemented as soon as possible, even during Ducey’s remaining year, would have Arizona lead a coalition of like-minded states in drafting the compact. Because the federal government is not guaranteeing protection to the states as required by Article IV, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution, the states may invoke “our inherent power to fend off the invasion at our southern border in the absence of federal protection.”
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This article originally appeared in the Intellectual Conservative. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
Rachel Alexander is the founder and editor of the Intellectual Conservative. She is a regular contributor in numerous respected publications and frequently appears on TV and news radio. A recovering legal practitioner, Rachel previously served as a former Assistant Attorney General for the State of Arizona.
How long are the Democrats going to play us as stupid?That whole darned bunch are a danger to our god given rights not gov. right but god given rights. Fighting for law & order is a right worth fighting for. The Democratic party is going to suffer and suffer they will fore the outright lieing & very dishonest actions of their so called leaders.
Why didn’t the republicans do this in the beginning when the boarder was getting out of control, it would have kept the illegals out of our country.We wouldn’t have this problem where millions of illegals would have kept them out.
Since Our Constitutional rights Article IV, section 4 were not invoked right away when Biden with a stroke of a Pen Stopped the building of the wall and millions of illegals poured into our Country? Just think of the problems this is going to created in the future for the “ones who got away/released. Do they get added to the illegal DACA problem that still exist today here in America?
We know the Radical Liberal democrats are going to “circle back” to that issue! Its only a question of when?