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A state seceding from the union could limit migration from one state to another, but then, maybe not. According to the fourteenth amendment, anyone born within the United States has US citizenship. Since the current inhabitants of the state what seceded would have been born in the US (most of them, anyway, not the new immigrants or illegals) they would automatically be US citizens. Therefore, the state that seceded would be in violation of the rights of its citizens unless it did grant dual citizenship.The citizens of a State that seceded and were a new country would be under the jurisdiction of said new country. The US Constitution has no jurisdiction in other countries.
The new country could decide to do anything they wanted and the US government could do nothing about it. Including striping the rights of dual citizenship residents. The US Government would have to act in behalf of her citizens that lost their rights and do its duty to protect the rights of those US citizens that were victims of a rogue State government.
What is interesting about the proponents of State secession is the complete lack of understanding that the people of any State in this here Union move around a lot. There doesnt really exist a permanent citizenry of any State. The properties in each State is intertwined by owners from different States. People have family in several States. My family line envelopes several States. Secessionists are too naive to realize that every State is inhabited by people from other States. I was born in Washington State, raised in Oregon and now live in New Mexico. But along the way I lived in several other States.
Perhaps, now being an independent nation, it could later act to strip that dual citizenship from its residents, but that would likely foment a rebellion.
All of this is just academic, of course, but an interesting bit of speculation.