President. no alien has ever had a right to enter the United States. No alien to any country has ever had a right to enter that country. No country on earth today gives nonnationals any legal. moral. or equitable right. any justiciable right at all. to cross its borders as immigrants. But this amendment would have the United States grant such a right. by necessary implication of the language of the amendment with respect to review of exclusion proceedings. to any and every person anywhere in the world who may at any time in the future desire to come to the United States as an immigrant. From time immemorial. a sovereign nation has had the absolute right to admit or exclude aliens. If we take the step of waiving that right for this Nation. the next step is likely to be a demand that the adjudication of the alleged right of an alien to come to the United States be vested in an international tribunal set up by the United Nations.
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