Article I, Section 8, clause 4
Posted on: February 13, 2017 at 16:48:07 CT
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One does not naturalize in the US without being an immigrant first...
As Justice Kennedy wrote in the 2012 decision in Arizona v. United States:
"The Government of the United States has broad, undoubted power over the subject of immigration and the status of aliens. … This authority rests, in part, on the National Government’s constitutional power to “establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” U. S. Const., Art. I, §8, cl. 4, and its inherent power as sovereign to control and conduct relations with foreign nations…."
Edited by Spanky at 16:49:12 on 02/13/17