See:
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Let us acknowledge some specific facts concerning the case.
Nowhere in our federal Constitution has Congress been granted an exclusive power to regulate immigration.
Congress has been granted power “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Naturalization involves the process by which a foreign national, who is already in our country, is granted citizenship. Immigration, on the other hand involves a foreign national traveling to and entering the United States . . . two very distinct activities!
And according to our very own Supreme Court, with respect to this power (Naturalization), “Its sole object was to prevent one State from forcing upon all the others, and upon the general government, persons as citizens whom they were unwilling to admit as such.” PASSENGER CASES, 48 U. S. 283 (1849).
Regulating immigration is an original power exercised by our States prior to the adoption of our current Constitution. And a number of states prior to the ratification of our current constitution adopted laws prohibiting the importation of foreign nationals who might become a “public charge”, e.g., ”The Massachusetts colony led these efforts and as early as 1645 the colony passed a law forbidding the admission of indigent migrants. This law was followed in the 18th century by other laws prohibiting the landing of “Sick, Lame, or Otherwise Infirm Persons,” and calling for bonds that were forfeited if immigrants of questionable means became public charges.” SOURCE
And, in New York v. Miln, 36 U.S. 102 (1837) - a New York law “intended to prevent the state’s being burdened with an influx of foreigners and to prevent their becoming paupers, and who would be chargeable as such”, our very own Supreme Court emphatically confirms the following:
“That the act of the Legislature of New York mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration assumes to regulate trade and commerce between the port of New York and foreign ports, and is unconstitutional and void.” . . . “The act of the Legislature of New York is not a regulation of commerce, but of police, and, being so, it was passed in the exercise of a power which rightfully belonged to the state. The State of New York possessed the power to pass this law before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The law was “intended to prevent the state’s being burdened with an influx of foreigners and to prevent their becoming paupers, and who would be chargeable as such.” The end and means here used are within the competency of the states, since a portion of their powers were surrendered to the federal government."
So, as we have learned, the authority to regulate immigration is an original power exercise by the states prior to the adoption of our federal Constitution, and nowhere in our federal Constitution have the states surrendered that original power.
Additionally, and with respect to the current invasion of unwanted foreign nationals into the State of Texas - an invasion which is destructive to the general welfare of the State of Texas - our federal Constitution states, in crystal clear language, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Consequently, the nonsense asserted by U.S. District Judge David, that SB 4 is likely unconstitutional because the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over immigration matters, is a flat out lie unsupported by the wording of our federal Constitution, as documented above.
For those interested in an amicus brief filed in support of the Texas law, SB 4, CLICK HERE
JWK
When terrorist attacks begin on American soil, let us not forget it was the current Democrat Party Leadership _ voted into office by your neighbors - who encouraged and invited millions upon millions of poverty-stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, criminal, and unvetted terrorist foreign nationals into our country.
Texas’ immigration-enforcement bill, SB4, is back in federal appeals court Wednesday
The hearing before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will focus on whether the law is constitutional as Texas tries to create its own arrest-and-deportation policies to curb unauthorized immigration into the state.
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Let us acknowledge some specific facts concerning the case.
Nowhere in our federal Constitution has Congress been granted an exclusive power to regulate immigration.
Congress has been granted power “To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization.” Naturalization involves the process by which a foreign national, who is already in our country, is granted citizenship. Immigration, on the other hand involves a foreign national traveling to and entering the United States . . . two very distinct activities!
And according to our very own Supreme Court, with respect to this power (Naturalization), “Its sole object was to prevent one State from forcing upon all the others, and upon the general government, persons as citizens whom they were unwilling to admit as such.” PASSENGER CASES, 48 U. S. 283 (1849).
Regulating immigration is an original power exercised by our States prior to the adoption of our current Constitution. And a number of states prior to the ratification of our current constitution adopted laws prohibiting the importation of foreign nationals who might become a “public charge”, e.g., ”The Massachusetts colony led these efforts and as early as 1645 the colony passed a law forbidding the admission of indigent migrants. This law was followed in the 18th century by other laws prohibiting the landing of “Sick, Lame, or Otherwise Infirm Persons,” and calling for bonds that were forfeited if immigrants of questionable means became public charges.” SOURCE
And, in New York v. Miln, 36 U.S. 102 (1837) - a New York law “intended to prevent the state’s being burdened with an influx of foreigners and to prevent their becoming paupers, and who would be chargeable as such”, our very own Supreme Court emphatically confirms the following:
“That the act of the Legislature of New York mentioned in the plaintiff’s declaration assumes to regulate trade and commerce between the port of New York and foreign ports, and is unconstitutional and void.” . . . “The act of the Legislature of New York is not a regulation of commerce, but of police, and, being so, it was passed in the exercise of a power which rightfully belonged to the state. The State of New York possessed the power to pass this law before the adoption of the Constitution of the United States. The law was “intended to prevent the state’s being burdened with an influx of foreigners and to prevent their becoming paupers, and who would be chargeable as such.” The end and means here used are within the competency of the states, since a portion of their powers were surrendered to the federal government."
So, as we have learned, the authority to regulate immigration is an original power exercise by the states prior to the adoption of our federal Constitution, and nowhere in our federal Constitution have the states surrendered that original power.
Additionally, and with respect to the current invasion of unwanted foreign nationals into the State of Texas - an invasion which is destructive to the general welfare of the State of Texas - our federal Constitution states, in crystal clear language, “No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Consequently, the nonsense asserted by U.S. District Judge David, that SB 4 is likely unconstitutional because the federal government has exclusive jurisdiction over immigration matters, is a flat out lie unsupported by the wording of our federal Constitution, as documented above.
For those interested in an amicus brief filed in support of the Texas law, SB 4, CLICK HERE
JWK
When terrorist attacks begin on American soil, let us not forget it was the current Democrat Party Leadership _ voted into office by your neighbors - who encouraged and invited millions upon millions of poverty-stricken, poorly educated, low skilled, diseased, disabled, criminal, and unvetted terrorist foreign nationals into our country.
