Bald Eagle Vs. Flying Burrito

Jonathan Southworth

Professor: Jason MacLeod

Composition & Rhetoric

June 20, 2011 / Summer 1

The Bald Eagle vs. The Flying Burrito

Barack Obama has sent U. S. troops to Libya to protect the citizens of a foreign nation while the violence in United States south-western border towns continues to escalate to the point of explosives being thrown at Texas Rangers and innumerable gun fights between law enforcement officials and Mexican Cartel members. Then to consider the 11 million illegal immigrants that are already on U.S. soil, that being coupled with the rising level of unemployed Americans; I can’t help but to wonder how many jobs are being taken away from legal American citizens due to the lack of enforcement of United States immigration laws. My heart aches because the future of our country, our culture, and our heritage is being strangled by the enormous number of illegal immigrants that are crossing our borders. It’s as if the true citizens of this, once great nation, are being sold out by our own elected officials; they appear to be more concerned with the health and prosperity of illegals than they are for those who elected them to office.

Article IV, Section 4 of the United States Constitution states: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect them against invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.” Article VI reads: “The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State Legislatures, and all Executive and Judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to an Office or public trust under the United States.” The preceding words of the United States Constitution are a required oath of all elected...