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  2. Title 8 of the United States Code - Wikipedia

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    Section 1252c: Authorizing State and local law enforcement officials to arrest and detain certain illegal aliens Section 1253: Penalties related to removal Section 1254 is repealed. Section 1254a: Temporary protected status Section 1254b: Collection of fees under temporary protected status program

  3. Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

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    The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. Section 2. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. [3]

  4. List of United States immigration laws - Wikipedia

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    This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Many acts of Congress and executive actions relating to immigration to the United States and citizenship of the United States have been enacted in the United States. Most immigration and nationality laws are codified in Title 8 of the United ...

  5. Nationality law - Wikipedia

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    The right to a nationality and the prohibition against depriving one's nationality is codified in article 15 of the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights". Article 1 of the "Convention on Certain Questions Relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws" states: [11] It is for each State to determine under its own law who are its nationals.

  6. Police power (United States constitutional law) - Wikipedia

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    The authority for use of police power under American Constitutional law has its roots in English and European common law traditions. [3] Even more fundamentally, use of police power draws on two Latin principles, sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas ("use that which is yours so as not to injure others"), and salus populi suprema lex esto ("the welfare of the people shall be the supreme law ...

  7. Right of return - Wikipedia

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    Another early example of national law recognizing the Right of Return was the French constitution of 1791, enacted on 15 December 1790: [6] the freedom of everyone to go, to stay, or to leave, without being halted or arrested unless in accordance with procedures established by the Constitution.

  8. Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    Law enforcement officers, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity, have the right to engage in political activity or run for elective office. Law enforcement officers shall, if disciplinary action is expected, be notified of the investigation, the nature of the alleged violation, and be notified of the outcome of the investigation ...

  9. Self-determination - Wikipedia

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    [15] [16] The European revolutions of 1848, the post-World War I settlement at Versailles, and the decolonization movement after World War II shaped and established the norm in international law. [17] The American example has been seen as the earliest assertion of the right of national self-determination, although this was argued primarily in ...