Immigration: State Right or not?
As we leave our study of the Constitution behind (or do we ever really leave this behind since we refer back to it so often), here is one more article bringing up the hot topic of immigration regulation and how the states vary so much.
States' Immigration Policies Diverge
This will be a hot button topic in the upcoming election so get familiar with it. If immigration regulation is an expressed power of Congress, how can the states pass laws restricting immigration?
Mr. Thompson
posted by erdecker @ 12:37 PM
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2 Comments:
I agree with the article's point that because of the lack of a national policy it is becoming more and more difficult for us to ever agree upon a policy because local governments are taking it upon themselves to create policies which contradict one another.
Even though illegal immigrants are going around the normal measures taken to enter the country, they are still people, and therefore they should still fall under the jurisdiction of the constitution. How far is too far when it comes to stripping the basic rights of human beings. I think if illegal immmigrants coming into the US are willing to work and abide by our laws then they should be allowed the same rights as US citizens. What we need to do is separate the rights from the privilleges associated with being a citizen, and ristrict the privilleges of illegal immigrants... not the rights.
//Pam B
I guess I didn't really respond to the question of whether or not it is a state right. If we can't seem to agree on a policy then maybe the best thing to do in order to keep our government not necessarily unified, but content and out of conflict, is to let the individual states apply their own policies on immmigration.
//Pam B
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