Illegal Immigration

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"States have no power to pass immigration laws because it?s an attribute of foreign affairs. Just as states can?t have their own foreign policies or enter into treaties, they can?t have their own immigration laws either."

That's what the official legal folks say anyway -

That's exactly correct. One of the main purposes of the Federal government is to deal with foreign relations and international issues. Of course, the Constitution also pretty clearly leaves most other topics (education, regulation of non-interstate business and travel, etc..). to the States and that certainly hasn't kept the Feds from usurping those rights and powers.

It would be nice if we could depend on both the Feds and the State governments to actually tend to their own knitting and do their jobs for a change. We wouldn't end up with these kinds of hijinks going on.