" In Smith v. Turner (1849), Justice John McKinley opined
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(as James Iredell earlier declared in the North Carolina ratifying convention) that “migration” and “importation” referred to immigrants and slaves as distinct classes of people, and the clause therefore buttressed Congress’s exclusive power over immigration after the year 1808."