Category: Immigration Laws

Understanding the Constitution: The Power to Restrict Immigration

Commentary The Constitution doesn’t use the word “immigration.” Those consulting the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 (such as the essays in “The Federalist”) will find no discussion of the subject. Consequently, some modern writers argue that, constitutionally, America should be an “open borders” country—that Congress has no power to limit immigration. Others say that there must…


Farm Groups Ask Biden to Secure Border, Enforce US Immigration Laws

The Texas Farm Bureau and 50 other state and national farming organizations have asked the Biden administration to “enforce legal immigration” after an influx of illegal immigration resulted in a crime wave impacting ranchers and farmers. “The current situation should not be acceptable to you or to any American,” they write to the secretaries of…