Henderson v. Mayor of the City of New York Commissioners of Immigration v. North German Lloyd

How courts have described this case

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• holding immigration is a “power[], which, from [its] nature, [is] exclusive in Congress”
• holding immigration is a “power[], which, from [its] nature, [is] exclusive in Congress”
• holding immigration is a “power[], which, from [its] nature, [is] exclusive in Congress”
• quot- ing Holliday and echoing this point in the context of the Foreign Commerce Clause
• “That which cannot be done directly will not be permitted to be done indirectly.”
• “[N]o definition of [the state police power], and no urgency for its use, can authorize a State to exercise it in regard to a subject-matter which has been confided exclusively to the discretion of Congress by the Constitution.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).