Alabama is suing, claiming “persons” does not include
Posted on: January 15, 2019 at 11:21:38 CT
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individuals who are in the U.S. illegally, without the permission of the federal government.
Furthermore, “in the public law of the founding era, the term ‘inhabitant’ did not encompass unlawful residents because inhabitance was a legal status that depended upon permission to settle granted by the sovereign nation in which an alien wished to reside,” Alabama argues.