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U.S. Constitution: Government does or does not have Power over Immigration according to the Constitution?

"Law of Nations", Article 1 Section 8, U.S. Constitution

Emmerich de Vattel's Law of Nations

"The sovereign may forbid the entrance of his territory either to foreigners in general, or in particular cases, or to certain persons, or for certain particular purposes, according as he may think it advantageous to the state. There is nothing in all this, that does not flow from the rights of domain and sovereignty: every one is obliged to pay respect to the prohibition; and whoever dares to violate it, incurs the penalty decreed to render it effectual."

William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England

" . . . by the law of nations no member of one society has a right to intrude into another. And therefore Puffendorf very justly resolves[a], that it is left in the power of all states, to take such measures about the admission of strangers, as they think convenient . . ."

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