There are no illegal immigrants in America

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

The tax or duty is specific to importation, but the clause also refers to migration, separately.

The clause refers solely to the migration and importation of slaves and it became void when 13th amendment abolished slavery.

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Radar

The clause refers solely to the migration and importation of slaves ...

It doesn't say so. Are you bringing in something from outside the Constitution?

Slaves don't migrate.

[Radar]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

It doesn't say so. Are you bringing in something from outside the Constitution?

Slaves don't migrate.

They migrate the same way cattle do. Their masters take them from one place to another. Slaves are imported. Slaves are property for which you paid a duty or a tax to import. Free people are not imported, are not property, and do not require a tax or a duty. The clause can only refer to slavery and our founders said so, the Supreme Court said so, the U.S. government and every single law school in America say so, and most of all the U.S. Constitution says so through the use of words like import, duty, tax, and migration rather than immigration.