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 Immigration and Control of the National Border

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 All legitimate governments have every right to control their national borders. Indeed, if they are to remain a nation, they are obligated to do so.

 

The Constitution Party does not believe the so-called “system” of US Immigration is broken at all. Legal immigrants routinely are admitted into this nation, processed through legitimate channels. What is broken is the fortitude to enforce existing laws and to combat illegal aliens entering our sovereign realm.

 

No amount of American domestic laws will deter the unabated flood of willful illegal aliens crossing our national borders. This nation is being invaded. And the only known method to halt an invasion is to strictly enforce secure national borders. If we do not do so, our national republic—our economy, security and social systems—is in jeopardy of being toppled.

 

Under fear of offending political correctness, this nation has succumbed to the dictates of others. The Constitution Party of Idaho has no such fear. It rejects any notion that illegal aliens get to dictate to America when or where or how they may enter our Nation; or to determine for themselves whether they may stay or not.

 

Any illegal alien residing in these United States is in felony violation of the US Code. They must be prosecuted and sentenced as such.

 

The illegal use of undue social benefits by unauthorized aliens is theft. Forced entry across the national border is breaking and entering. Failure to process through legitimate immigration channels is a refusal to obey statutory law; as such, it is an immediate disqualification for residence in these United States, and is ground for deportation.

 

Our demands on immigration are simple. All immigration into these United States of America must pass through an orderly process under strict legal oversight by the American federal government. If it does not, then perpetrators are subject to arrest, felony conviction, sentencing, and subsequent deportation to home of origin upon completion of sentence.

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 We do so attest.

 Constitution Party of Idaho

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The oligopoly’s “modified” American Northwest rural economy

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Foreign markets are unhappy. Northwest commodity wheat is reportedly contaminated with a genetically modified variety. The extent is unknown. Despite assurances of secure genome tests in the past by the oligopoly, the CEO of the Oregon Wheat Commission stated, “Somehow this gene is out in the environment.” Sabotage is claimed—ever a convenient scapegoat.

This genetically modified wheat brouhaha points out something the oligopoly would prefer you not know. Over the past 35 years, oligopolistic consolidation of American food production now means that a few multinational firms control the entire food chain. Sure. Family farms still operate, a shell of a former self reliant culture. These can be easily crushed if a multinational decides they must have unprocessed commodities under production costs to provide corporate boardroom bonuses. So now, what a fortuitous circumstance! “Modified” strains are announced—and that is sure to drive down the commodity price under break even for the remaining family farms. The insatiable oligopoly boardrooms must be fed, of course, even at the expense of indentured American communities.

They have stripped processing and manufacturing out of the American economy. Northwest communities have been forced out of viable manufacturing and food processing sectors like milling, and are reduced to straight commodity production. This limits the Northwest economy’s potential, considering 90% of the wheat crop from Oregon, Washington and Idaho is earmarked for export unprocessed. Formerly, this wheat was processed here, even as late as the 1970s. Now, multinationals have pushed out American labor, and sent food processing and milling overseas.

Current economic policy encourages this transfer of value added processing and manufacturing. It is time to stop allowing the oligopoly to destroy entire communities just to obtain obscene corporate bonuses in New York’s Wall Street. If the oligopolies which control the food production in America will not self regulate, then income from commodity grain exports must be heavily levied.  Decentralized value added processing can and must return jobs to Americans who live on Main Street.

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We do so attest.

Constitution Party of Idaho

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Wrong Way Economy in Idaho

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 The Constitution Party asserts that Republican Party economic policies have proven ruinous to Idaho families and communities. Economists tell us Idaho has a “structural problem with its economy”. If so, that fault lay with Republican architects. For if not they, then who? They have held uninterrupted control of the State Legislature for 55 years. Meanwhile, small towns and communities across our Gem State hemorrhage population. Our youth leave to find economic opportunities elsewhere.

We are told the nature of Idaho’s economy is changing—to low wage service jobs. Our future, they say, is to become domestic servants for retirees moving to Idaho. Yes, domestic service is honorable. But we believe it is the wrong way to send Idaho’s entire economy. That is an economic and social death spiral; it is cultural senescence, and it is found all across rural Idaho.

We are told as a people that our long term trend is away from skilled manufacturing. Future expectation of low wage domestic service will be the norm. We are told Idaho’s bounteous natural resources are not the solution for a vigorous State economy. And so-called low-tech manufacturing is derided as not competitive in Idaho.

The Constitution Party rejects this entire economic scenario. We say Idaho’s natural resources—agriculture, mining, timber—are the very basis to prosperity, vigor and growth of our family households and communities. What is now dismissed as “low-tech” manufacturing, we contend, is actually value added production—value that is now being ceded offshore under Republican economic policies. It is unconscionable for Republican economic leaders to accept the continued descent into a low wage service economy—and yet claim they can do nothing. If that be true, then they are in dereliction of their duty, or they are incompetent. In either case, they should be removed from office.

It is also hypocritical that they seem to accept our commodity production, saying it is fine to ship our unprocessed grains, ores and timber offshore for the benefit of multi-national corporations to convert into value added products elsewhere, basically with slave labor. We say, the entire purpose of an economy is to sustain a culture, its families and communities—and for that reason we stand firm upon the need to vertically integrate Idaho’s economy, including low-tech production which ultimately leads to skilled manufacturing. That is our economic future. Otherwise, we are being sold back into the institution of serfdom under an aristocracy.

And that truly is the wrong way.

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We do so attest.

Constitution Party of Idaho

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Limited Government and the Control of Taxation

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The Constitution Party is routinely mischaracterized as advocating no government. To the contrary, we recognize that government is necessary for an orderly society, for security and for the protection of liberties. We do not call for overturning government. We call for returning it.

Our demands are simple. Legitimate government must be constrained within the bounds of our Constitution and Common Law. In that sense, we call for limited government, one that is accountable to and empowered by the people.

We also recognize that taxes are necessary to fund government. We believe that because we all share in the benefit of an orderly society, that we all have a stake in providing funds necessary to the governance of this society.

However, because we believe in limited government, we insist that no taxation is to be incurred without absolute proof of the necessity to take from the citizenry their private property and wealth. Therefore, each government program and expenditure must be submitted to strict fiscal audit both as to efficacy and necessity as well as to constitutionality.

Taxes are necessary. But waste, redundancy, favoritism, inefficiency and corruption are not. No legitimate government should tolerate any abuse whatsoever of the treasury of the people.

Government is not an end unto itself. It has no reason or purpose beyond its charter, our Constitution. Government beyond the boundaries set forth by our Constitution is illegitimate. Expenditure of public taxes beyond strictly enforced accountability is theft.

Refusal to account is tyranny.

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We do so attest.

Constitution Party of Idaho

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