HAMMER: Why Is No One Pointing Out That Sanctuary Cities Blatantly Violate This Federal Law?

Securing the nation’s borders and protecting the nation’s sovereignty against those who would violate it is, perhaps above anything else, the singular most important function of the federal government. After all, in the 2012 Supreme Court case of Arizona v. United States, Justice Antonin Scalia powerfully described “the power to exclude from the sovereign’s territory people who have no right to be there” as “the defining characteristic of sovereignty.” Illegal immigration, furthermore, manifests itself across countless issues affecting the body politic: National security, crime, drugs, public health, cultural assimilation, and the health of the public fisc.

But what happens when the federal government’s unwillingness to defend its sovereignty is coupled with the federal government’s unwillingness to defend the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution — that the “Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof … shall be the supreme law of the land?”