BTW, Thomas jefferson and Madison's opinion was confirmed by SCOTUS:
"... In discussing this question, we must not confound the rights of citizenship which a state may confer within its own limits and the rights of citizenship as a member of the Union. It does not by any means follow, because he has all the rights and privileges of a citizen of a state, that he must be a citizen of the United States. He may have all of the rights and privileges of the citizen of a state, and yet not be entitled to the rights and privileges of a citizen in any other state; for, previous to the adoption of the constitution of the United States, every state had the undoubted right to confer on whomsoever it pleased the character of citizen, and to endow him with all its rights. But this character, of course, was confined to the boundaries of the state, and gave him no rights or privileges in other states beyond those secured to him by the laws of nations and the comity of states. Nor have the several states surrendered the power of conferring these rights and privileges by adopting the constitution of the United States. Each state may still confer them upon an alien, or any one it thinks proper, or upon any class or description of persons; yet he would not be a citizen in the sense in [143 U.S. 135, 160] which that word is used in the constitution of the United States, nor entitled to sue as such in one of its courts, nor to the privileges and immunities of a citizen in the other states. The rights which he would acquire would be restricted to the state which gave them. The constitution has conferred on congress the right to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and this right is evidently exclusive, and has always been held by this court to be so..."
U.S. Supreme Court
BOYD v. STATE OF NEBRASKA, 143 U.S. 135 (1892)
Font size and color notwithstanding, is it REALLY your claim that a STATE can admit an alien and grant it the right to stay here when the Federal Government has elected NOT to grant that alien entry or permission to stay?
Because, if that's your contention, then plainly you are flatly wrong.
-- United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649, 18 S.Ct. 456, 42 L.Ed. 890 (1898).The power, granted to congress by the constitution, 'to establish an uniform rule of naturalization,' was long ago adjudged by this court to be vested exclusively in congress. Chirac v. Chirac (1817) 2 Wheat. 259.
That is my contention precisely as was the Founding Fathers and the SCOTUS.
Of course, the states have been reduced to mere provinces and are no longer allowed to confer their citizenship upon whomever they want to.
The "states" of Arizona and Alabama are well within their authority to detain and deport aliens . But those states can not prevent California or any of the other 48 states fromk admitting aliens and conferring STATE citizenship!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And so you remain flatly wrong.
-- http://www.fosterquan.com/content/documents/policy_papers/FactsAboutFederalPreemption.pdfThe Supreme Court has also found implied federal constitutional powers to regulate immigration as an incident of Sovereignty see, e.g., The Chinese Exclusion Case, 130 U.S. 581 (1889); Fong Yue Ting v. U.S., 149 U.S. 698, 711 (1893)
In order to further educate yourself you need to stop imagining that your legal and anecdotal citations are current or meaningful.
By the way, the fact -- and it is a fact -- that the United States has preempted the field on the issue of immigration and naturalization does NOT mean that there is ANYTHING wrong with the Arizona law.
The problem here is that you do not understand what is preempted, what isn't preempted or what preemption even means.
And no. The STATE of Arizona absolutely cannot "deport" an illegal alien. No STATE can. The United States can.
Back to the question of whether a STATE can regulate citizenship:
id.See DeCanas v. Bica, 424 U.S. 351, 35455 (1976) ("Power to regulate immigration is unquestionably exclusively a federal power.") * * * *
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