THAT IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH LAW.
LET'S SEE WHAT OUR FOUNDING FATHER AND 3rd PREZ SAID ABOUT IT:
4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that "the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people," the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the -- day of July, 1798, intituled "An Act concerning aliens," which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
SO IT APPEARS THAT WHAT THE MAJORITY DECISION UPHELD WAS A KKK BYLAW - WHICH IN THE FIFTH CIRCUIT HAS THE FORCE OF LAW
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Great !!! Then let each state set it's own "friends" laws... Of course -- you forget how this concept changed over time AFTER 1798... In the next century -- the Fed took full force of immigration policy and damn the states....
IT APPEARS THAT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT EACH STATE IS SOVEREIGN WITHIN ITS BORDERS. IMMIGRATION LAW WAS USURPED BY A RACIST SUPREME COURT IN THE 1860's BECAUSE OF THE CHINESE "MENACE" - DEPORTING THEM BECAME AN EMERGENCY BECAUSE CHINESE EMPLOYEES NEVER GOT SICK, WORKED LIKE HELL, AND SUBSCRIBED TO THE WORK ETHIC - HENCE THE SCOTUS MOTHERFUCKERS RULED THAT THERE WAS AN EMERGENCY AND THE KKK BYLAWS STATED THAT THEY WERE THEY WERE DEPORTABLE.
PREVIOUSLY THE US SUPREME COURT CASE HAD RULED THAT EACH STATE RETAINED THE RIGHT TO CONFER THEIR CITIZENSHIP UPON WHOMEVER
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.
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
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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 an uniform rule of naturalization, and this right is evidently exclusive, and has always been held by this court to be so. Consequently, no State, since the adoption of the Constitution, can by naturalizing an alien invest him with the rights and privileges secured to a citizen of a State under the Federal government, although, so far as the State alone was concerned, he would undoubtedly be entitled to the rights of a citizen, and clothed with all the rights and immunities which the constitution and laws of the State attached to that character."
BOYD v. NEBRASKA EX REL. THAYER., 12 S. Ct. 375, 143 U.S. 135 (U.S. 02/01/1892)
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