There are no illegal immigrants in America

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Radar

Migration refers to movement, not merely natural migrations, but forced ones. The Duty and Tax refer to an imported good; specifically the slave. The importation (bringing property into America) and migration (moving the livestock...aka slaves into different states to be sold) of slaves can only apply to slaves, and not the immigration of free people.

The duty only applies to the importation, not migration. And even if we accept that slaves migrate, so do any other "Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit".