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Nic Name · 10-05-2002, 10:08 PM

In the USA, citizenship and immigration are federal constitutional jurisdictions.

States cannot legislate in those matters. If one is legally in the USA, one cannot be banned from any state and can travel to any state without restriction.

When you hear of someone who "can't go to some state" it means he can't go there without liability for outstanding offences.

As I understand it, substantial criminal offences are all subject to inter-state cooperation, so suspects and criminals can be picked up in any state on a warrant from another and transferred to the state in which the crime was commited.

In Canada, criminal law legislation is solely a federal jurisdiction but the enforcement of that law is provincial. In Canada, there cannot be different criminal laws and penalties depending on which province the act is committed, as it is in the States.

10-05-2002, 10:08 PM	#44
Nic Name retired Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 1,930	In the USA, citizenship and immigration are federal constitutional jurisdictions. States cannot legislate in those matters. If one is legally in the USA, one cannot be banned from any state and can travel to any state without restriction. When you hear of someone who "can't go to some state" it means he can't go there without liability for outstanding offences. As I understand it, substantial criminal offences are all subject to inter-state cooperation, so suspects and criminals can be picked up in any state on a warrant from another and transferred to the state in which the crime was commited. In Canada, criminal law legislation is solely a federal jurisdiction but the enforcement of that law is provincial. In Canada, there cannot be different criminal laws and penalties depending on which province the act is committed, as it is in the States. Last edited by Nic Name; 10-05-2002 at 10:45 PM.