You might enjoy the phrase “Constitutional border protection.” The US had no immigration laws whatsoever for nearly a century, and none are in the Constitution, so it’s fun to push the same button that right-wingers do with the Second Amendment, but for immigration.
The Constitution is not the totality of law nor was it ever intended to be. It is the guide rails that establishes the scope that the rest of the legal system exists within.
How would framing immigration in comparison to the Bill of Rights even push the same buttons as the Second Amendment? The Constitution grants Congress the authority and requirement to protect the country and to set naturalization law, which is immigration. There is, as you said, no constitutional right to become an American citizen.
Piss off right-wingers with Due Process, because Constitutionally everyone on US soil or in US custody for any reason, and that means Everyone with a capital E, is covered under Due Process.
“We found this nation to welcome the world’s masses, anyone seeking freedom and democracy, we will create the jewel of the world everyone will want to be part of!”
“Wait no, we meant like… some of you, sometimes. We’re good now, yeah, there’s tons of space left and land that we ahem own now, but we like it kinda empty so we can film truck commercials in the mountains.”
You might enjoy the phrase “Constitutional border protection.” The US had no immigration laws whatsoever for nearly a century, and none are in the Constitution, so it’s fun to push the same button that right-wingers do with the Second Amendment, but for immigration.
The Constitution is not the totality of law nor was it ever intended to be. It is the guide rails that establishes the scope that the rest of the legal system exists within.
How would framing immigration in comparison to the Bill of Rights even push the same buttons as the Second Amendment? The Constitution grants Congress the authority and requirement to protect the country and to set naturalization law, which is immigration. There is, as you said, no constitutional right to become an American citizen.
Piss off right-wingers with Due Process, because Constitutionally everyone on US soil or in US custody for any reason, and that means Everyone with a capital E, is covered under Due Process.
I really don’t get our country.
“We found this nation to welcome the world’s masses, anyone seeking freedom and democracy, we will create the jewel of the world everyone will want to be part of!”
“Wait no, we meant like… some of you, sometimes. We’re good now, yeah, there’s tons of space left and land that we ahem own now, but we like it kinda empty so we can film truck commercials in the mountains.”