Immigration, whether legal or illegal is a Federal issue. The Federal government should never have allowed it to get this way. We have, in California, voted to get rid of the illegals and won, but there are judges out there that are hell bent to bring them into our country. These judges strike down every law put on the books. A single evil person has the authority to dictate how we are going to live. The rest of the country is just now getting a taste of it. There has got to be a way of getting rid of rogue judges.
The Mainstream Media has always promoted the poor illegal immigrants and ignored our cries for help. Until Now. Now we have the internet. No longer will our letter’s to the Editor get dropped in the waste basket. I subscribe to newspapers and quit reading them. I throw them in the trash. The last time I ordered the newspaper it was for only $27 a year. That year is up and they keep sending me the paper because they have lost all their readership. As the speed of Streaming Videos get faster, Network News will also die.
In the same clause there's a reference to "law" in a totally different matter, so it's pretty obvious that initially the Congress didn't have the power to regulate immigration through law.
What folks point to as the centerpiece of immigration today is the 15th Amendment. A series of Court decisions and laws have worked to give de facto if not de jure authority to Congress to rule on immigration matters.
It's probably time to take some of the judges who have ruled contrary to the Constitution outback behind the woodshed and have to, of course, but a more effective method would be to force a Constitutional Convention to address the issue.
I have no doubt a Constitutional Convention would NOT come up with amnesty!