Citizenship


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 (โ€œbirthrightโ€) citizens. The constitutional question revolves around whether such children are โ€œsubject to the...
An Inherent Power to Exclude?

An Inherent Power to Exclude?

Josh Blackman (South Texas College of Law Houston) has postedย The Power to Excludeย on SSRN.ย  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...