Its about bringing slaves into the country at a port. SMFH
It is about federal supremacy over entry into the Union.
What do you think IMMIGRATION is? Are you that clueless? Really, are you that stupid that you want to argue points that have been made fifty times? Is it that or are you delighting yourself in trolling and derailing this thread?
from our nearest trading partners, it should be tourism.
danielpalos,
I sometimes don't understand your posts because I get alerts that you are responding to me when it appears you are responding to someone else. I suspect it has something to do with people who the mods had me put on ignore. Nevertheless, Let's dispel this 1808 nonsense once and for all.
One attorney put it like this:
"
In addition, the Migration or Importation Clause provides Congress with the authority to prohibit migration and importation after 1808.(2) However, historical sources agree that this provision was to address the slave trade and not the migration of free persons."
What entity has authority in U.S. immigration law? - Kind
A copy of what danielpalos babbles on about can be found at:
The Avalon Project : Statutes of the United States Concerning Slavery
As per your arguments regarding the Interstate Commerce Clause as a means to deny people entry into the United States to take advantage of job opportunities, as opposed to becoming citizens - I suppose you "
could" argue that. But, you should be forewarned that there are truisms that history has provided us. Frederic Bastiat, who wrote the popular book "
The Law" observed:
"
When goods don't cross borders, armies will."
If foreign workers are "
goods" (I'm not criticizing your point on that) then common sense dictates that if it takes armies to put them on U.S. soil, then that is the destiny you are lobbying for on this board.
A wall in our era is not a deterrent to the free market. In the past, people put up walls in order to preserve, protect, and defend a nation - and those nations generally had a degree of homogeneity holding them together.
What we have today is a proposal to make a full third of the undocumented foreigners into citizens, throw up a wall and declare victory. The reality is, those Dreamers are going to become citizens; they will have families; ultimately they will gain power, vote and put a liberal in office that will dismantle the wall, leaving the technology and the manpower to be used against the very people that lobbied for the wall. As for me, I'm just not dumb enough to buy the bullets that someone else will shoot me with. I'm about a permanent and mutually beneficial solution for
all sides.
