Citizenship
Constitution 101: Immigration vs Naturalization
TAC memberships help us produce more educational tools like this. Members can download this video and read the full transcript here. When discussing the power of the federal government under the Constitution, some people use the words “immigration” and...
Debate: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
This blog is featured in the latest Tenther newsletter, which everyone in the nullification movement gets daily or weekly. Be one of them – and Become a member here to support the TAC. Birthright citizenship. People are going crazy with the President suggesting he...About Birthright Citizenship
It has hit the news cycle once again: The perennial question of whether the children born in America of parents illegally in this country are natural born (“birthright”) citizens. The constitutional question revolves around whether such children are “subject to the...
An Inherent Power to Exclude?
Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) has posted The Power to Exclude on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Under modern doctrine, the federal government has an inherent authority to exclude aliens from entering the United States. In contrast, states lack any...