We can cite them for violations, but we don't have enforcement powers,

Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character of our government.

The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.

It is not questioned that the Federal Government is one of limited powers. Its powers are such, and such only, as are expressly granted in the Constitution or are properly incident to the expressly granted powers and necessary to their execution.

In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.

We believe the high number of violations is attributable to a significant increase in enforcement standards by the MSHA inspectors that examined this mine virtually every day.