Hard to argue with the guy who wrote it.
Note that they are very, very careful at all points to distinguish between territorial jurisdiction and political jurisdiction.
The second highlighted paragraph spells it out.
Residency - presumptively legal residency, the kind granted by a nation to a foreigner - is the key point when it comes to those who are not citizens.
Undoubtedly the alien lobby will scream “but illegals ARE residents! They live here!” - but not by any agreement with the owners of the land. It’s the minimum criteria.
Howard and Trumbull understood that, as did pretty much any American of that age: their status as “subjects” of the King was not that far behind them.
People in America now have lived so long without a tyrant ruling them that they have forgotten the concept, and cannot put the word in context.
Rush was hitting the subject very hard in his last hour of his show about as hard as I ever heard him. He won’t even use the term “illegal immigration” as that is the wrong term to use and a misnomer. Rush believes that those words together give quasi credibility for breaking the law.