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Naturalization =/= Immigration.OK then if you are a Constitutional Conservative you can cite what authority Congress has to regulate immigration. Don't give me the Naturalization clause because we've already covered that.It isnt ridiculous. It is the principle of Constitutional Conservatives.
I am a constitutional conservative, I listen to constitutional conservatives speak, I read books by them, I have never heard THIS argument made by any of them. The only people I've ever heard advocating open borders are Socialists who hope to flood our country with illegal immigrants in order to collapse the infrastructure and bring down the capitalist beast.
With open borders, we ostensibly cease to have a country. A constitution means nothing with no country. I'm not sure about what kind of point you're trying to make, I've scratched my head through this whole thread wondering about that. Sometimes, people can be absurd to illustrate absurdity... but I don't think that's the case here, I think you're being genuine. This is not the principle of any constitutional conservative I know of and I don't see where you've posted any examples of a prominent conservative uttering such a thing. This gets my vote for most bizarre thread of the week.
But that IS the authority to regulate immigration. We've covered it and you simply denied reality and claimed it doesn't deal with immigration... but it does. That is exactly what naturalization is... the dealing with immigration by government.
Your parsing of the constitution leads to things like claiming the 2nd amendment doesn't allow us to own guns or the 1st amendment doesn't allow religious freedom.
Clear enough for you?