Jeff Davis, Sanctuary, and Sedition Laws

Anisotropic state sanctuary laws present some issues. States such as Oregon and California have or seek to have laws prohibiting state law officials from cooperating with Federal officials enforcing immigration laws to arrest and deport illegal aliens. The so-called sanctuary laws have untended consequences that are interesting to consider. They highlight the problems mass numbers of illegal aliens have in deflecting the American political system from positive internal issues to one concerned too much with conflicts created by illegal immigrants.

State’s rights have been salient points since the civil war when state's rights to not cooperate with federal law largely ended. Illegal aliens as cheap workers are being protected by the same legal paradigm of state’s rights that allowed slavery with states of the confederacy asserting their right to not cooperate with federal officials seeking to enforce federal law. Following the civil formerly confederate states were not allowed to continue slavery even if their state legislatures voted to do so,

The basic problem is the lack of coherent legal reasoning in leftist governments led by the former party of slavery (Democrat Party) so far that they should regard laws as applicable to all rather than a few in special circumstances. Kant's categorical imperative is an important principle to keep in mind when making laws that would be consistent with equal protection of the law. Democrats have sought to gerrymander laws to their benefit without concern for the effect on national legal environment. Jeff Davis today would call the confederate states sanctuary states, providing on the job training for underprivileged Africans.

It is unlikely that sanctuary laws would stand up in federal courts against legal challenges. Paradoxically President Obama used federal law as the tool to prevent Arizona state legal officials from arresting illegal aliens denying state officials the power to enforce federal law while Oregon and California state governments have sought to shelter the same illegal aliens from the state side passing laws to prevent state officials from cooperating with federal law enforcement.

It is ironic that the left that have driven federal special-class, discriminatory, anisotropic laws known as anti-hate criminal laws forward and while seeking a profusion of sanctuary for illegal aliens laws. Down the road those state laws conflict with federal supremacy of law over state laws when they conflict that is the basis for so much of the civil rights movement. Not that slavery would be popular in the U.S.A. again if the Federal Government did not consider it illegal, it is the case that universal federal laws on important fundamental civil rights, the most basic of which is the right of citizenship and any benefits and responsibilities of it should be disambiguated from moldy under-the-table state laws that subvert it.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions from a former confederate state is another good part of the irony since he is the principal to defend federal law in federal power to enforce the will of the people of the United States to have equal protection of the law unsubverted by foreign interests including illegal aliens. The U.S.A. is first a sanctuary for citizens of a republic-democracy with national citizen-sovereignty.