[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 69 (Friday, April 27, 2018)]
[House]
[Pages H3742-H3743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

           By Mr. GOSAR:
       H.R. 5653.
       Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant 
     to the following:
       Article 1, section 8, clause 4, (the Naturalization Clause) 
     which gives Congress sovereign control over immigration. In 
     Chirac v.

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     Lessee of Chirac (1817), the Supreme Court affirmed that the 
     Constitution grants Congress Plenary power on immigration 
     policy. Further, in Galvan v. Press (1954) the court found 
     ``that the formulation of policies [pertaining to the entry 
     of aliens and the right to remain here] is entrusted to 
     Congress has become about as firmly imbedded in the 
     legislative and judicial tissues of our body politic as any 
     aspect of our government.'' Finally, in Sessions v. Dimaya 
     (2018), when discussing the aggravated felony definition in 
     section 101(a)(43)(F) of the Immigration and Nationality Act 
     (INA), Justice Neil Gorsuch issued an opinion stating, 
     ``Congress remains free at any time to add more crimes to its 
     list. It remains free, as well, to write a new residual 
     clause that affords the fair notice lacking here. Congress 
     might, for example, say that a conviction for any felony 
     carrying a prison sentence of a specified length opens an 
     alien to removal. Congress has done almost exactly this in 
     other laws . . . ''