Rogers v. Larsen

OPINION OF THE COURT

VAN DUSEN, Circuit Judge

This appeal raises the important question of whether 24 V.I.C. § 129, which provides for the replacement of alien nonimmigrant workers in the Virgin Islands with United *92States citizens or permanent resident aliens,1 is (1) preempted under the Supremacy Clause, Art. VI, cl. 2, of *93the Constitution,2 by the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 66 Stat. 163, as amended, 8 U.S.C. §§ 1101, et seq., or (2) violative of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment as applied through section 3 of the Revised Organic Act of the Virgin Islands, 48…