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Thank you for referencing that article yoe. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

One major constitutional problem with USCIS is the following, imo. As mentioned in related threads, and regardless of PC interpretations of the Constitution's “uniform rule of naturalizaton” clause, Clause 4 of Section 8 of Article I, interpretations used to justify fedral immigraton policy, the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via Constitution, the specific power to regulate immigration.

In fact, note that Thomas Jefferson had indicated, in terms of the 10th Amendment nonetheless, that immigration is uniquely a state power issue.

“4. _Resolved_, That alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are: that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States, distinct from their power over citizens. And it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared, that “the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people,” the act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the — day of July, 1798, intituled “An Act concerning aliens,” which assumes powers over alien friends, not delegated by the Constitution, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson, Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions - October 1798.

Another major constitutional problem with federal immigration laws is the following. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in non-elected government bureaucrats like those running USCIS (EPA, etc). And by delegating federal legislative powers to government agencies like USCIS, corrupt Congress is wrongly protecting the abuse of federal legislative / regulatory powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3.

So not only is Congress unconstitutonally delegating federal legislative powers non-elected government bureaucrats where so-called federal immigration policy is concerned, but Congress is delegating powers that the states have never delegated to the feds expressly via the Constitution in the first place.

What a mess! :^(