Ben Shapiro

Everyday examples confirm that understanding.

A running back does not arrive in the end zone when he reaches the one-yard line.

A guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door.

An army does not arrive in a city by encamping outside its wall.

And a letter does not arrive in a mailbag while it remains in the mail carrier's hand just inches away.

So Justice Thomas writes a concurrence and his concurrence says something further.

It says that there is no power, none for Congress to force the president to bring aliens into the country.

He says the Constitution allows Congress the power to regulate who doesn't get to come in.

But the Constitution does not say a certain number of people must be allowed in the country.

Also, says Thomas, the people in this case are not naturalized or even on the path to naturalization.

You have no rights under the U.S.

Constitution if you do not live in the country, if you are not on a path to naturalization, if you've never entered the country.

Random Bob from a random country can't just sue the United States on the basis of its immigration law.

So that is Thomas's concurrence.

OK, so this makes perfect sense.

All right.

You're on the other side of the border.

You don't have rights with regard to our immigration law, period.

And in the country means in the country.

Now, the case that was being made by Democrats is, OK, well, then that's not the way the law is supposed to work.