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The Power To Control Immigration Is A Core Aspect Of Sovereignty, John C. Eastman
The Power To Control Immigration Is A Core Aspect Of Sovereignty, John C. Eastman
John C. Eastman
Where in our constitutional system is the power to regulate immigration assigned? Professor Ilya Somin argues that the power to regulate immigration is not a power given to Congress because it is not enumerated. But I think it is so clearly a power given to Congress and that such was so well understood at the time of our founding that the Constitution did not even need to specify it. Even so, I think the Constitution does specify it. The notion that the power to regulate immigration is not contained within the power of naturalization is an anachronistic view of the …