Found this in a 1965 Earl Warren majority opinion: “areas ravaged by flood, fire or pestilence [can] be quarantined when it can be demonstrated that unlimited travel to the area would directly and materially interfere with the safety and welfare of the area or the nation.”
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Could the borders of Delaware be sealed by the governor or state legislature to prevent Biden from ravaging the country?
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*probably* under plenary police powers
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It's a podcast, so we'll never know the answer
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https://www.claimsjournal.com/news/national/2020/03/18/296072.htm … i think a bigger question is, considering no state has its own immigration enforcement department, how such a closure would even work on short notice while not depleting the entire police force so that they can still respond to emergencies
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You close down airports, the Interstate highways, and enlist local police to block roads at state lines.
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in the great migration north of African Americans after WWII they used to search the trains at the state borders and pull them off to stop the workforce leaving
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