SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 110
View Bill Status
View Bill Text
View Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact
Text to be added within a bill has been marked with Bold and
Underline. Text to be removed has been marked with
Strikethrough and Italic. How these codes are actually displayed will
vary based on the browser software you are using.
This sentence is marked with bold and underline to show added text.
This sentence is marked with strikethrough and italic, indicating
text to be removed.
SJM110.....................................................by STATE AFFAIRS
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION - Stating findings of the Legislature and emphatically
urging the President of the United States and Congress to uphold their
oaths of office and pass the necessary and appropriate legislation to
resolve the illegal immigration crisis.
02/11 Senate intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/12 Rpt prt - to St Aff
]]]] LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO ]]]]
Fifty-ninth Legislature Second Regular Session - 2008
IN THE SENATE
SENATE JOINT MEMORIAL NO. 110
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 economic
34 incentives for illegal immigration;
35 (3) Ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal immigrants; and
36 (4) Rejecting any form of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
37 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of the Senate be, and she is
38 hereby authorized and directed to forward a copy of this Memorial to the Pres-
39 ident of the United States, the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the
40 House of Representatives of Congress, and the congressional delegation repre-
41 senting the State of Idaho in the Congress of the United States.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 17823C1
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
economic incentives for illegal immigration;
(3) Ending birthright citizenship for children of illegal
immigrants;
(4) Rejecting any form of amnesty for illegal immigrants.
Fiscal Note
None
Name Sen. Shirley McKague
Sen. Monty Pearce
Phone: 208-332-1339
Sen. Mel Richardson
Sen. Mike Jorgenson
Rep. JoAn Wood
Rep. Marv Hagedorn
Rep. Phil Hart
Statement of Purpose/Fiscal Note SJM 110
REVISED REVISED REVISED REVISED