News Citizens Celebrate Constitution Day
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) celebrated Constitution Day and Citizenship Day on Sept. 17, and Constitution Week, with nearly 240 naturalization ceremonies across the country. More than 38,000 candidates were slated to become America’s newest citizens during the week from Sept. 16-23. The annual commemoration honors the signing of the Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787, and an observance that began in 1940 as “I Am an American Day.”
Interesting, that, with the plenary power doctrine still, as one might say, good law, the substantive provisions of the U.S. immigration laws are not generally subject to constitutional review. This constitution-free zone is anamolous in American law. The Supreme Court in Lynch v. Morales-Santana could revisit the doctrine in a case involving the gender distinctions in the nationality provision sin the U.S. immigration laws.
KJ