This [justification for his dissent on the Supreme Court's opinion on the Arizona immigration law] will go down as one of the great highlights of Scalia 2.0, now featuring more anti-black people precedent:
"Notwithstanding “[t]he myth of an era of unrestricted immigration” in the first 100 years of the Republic, the States enacted numerous laws restricting the immigration of certain classes of aliens, including convicted criminals, indigents, persons with contagious diseases, and (in Southern States) freed blacks. Neuman, The Lost Century of American Immigration (1776–1875), 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1833, 1835, 1841–1880 (1993). State laws not only provided for the removal of unwanted immigrants but also imposed penalties on unlawfully present aliens and those who aided their immigration.^2 Id., at 1883."
Scalia on AZ Immigration Law: If States Could Resrict Those Freed Slaves, Then Why Not Other 'Unlawfully Present Aliens?'
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