Nevertheless, to answer your question directly, yes, as stated, the 10th Amendment applies. Hel and I are in complete agreement.
BUT that is a double-edged sword. In taking that argument, in appealing to the constitution, one necessarily totally removes from the federal government the power to control who comes in, who stays, and who gets kicked out. Goodbye all federal immigration law.
So bringing it back to pragmatism vs. principle... the pragmatic solution here is that the majority of people here like the federal government having the clearly unconstitutional power to control who comes in. None of these governors are making constitutional arguments and reclaiming power over immigration: they're doing this because they don't like how BHO isn't doing it. They're not attacking whether or not he can. They believe he can and indeed they want him to keep these people out.
So the pragmatic solution in this case is.... Trumpism. Create an entirely new "papers please" branch of government. Set up a fence along the entire border. Mandatory anal cavity searches for all flights, even domestic.
Without a clear operating principle, we're stuck with the one everyone else is using - "keep the dark people out". And I don't really see how we can operate under that principle and achieve any victory for liberty, no matter how small.
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