Sonia Sotomayor: “This is the absolute wrong time for the Supreme Court to be sending a signal that would allow more discrimination rather…”

The benefits are immense.

Since 1917, Congress has required immigration officers to inspect noncitizens who arrive at ports of entry to determine whether they may enter the United States.

Today, this Court undoes centuries of political practice and concludes that all three branches of Government have been acting in open defiance of the Constitution all this time.

Congress passed the Refugee Act in 1980 because it did not want this country to repeat the mistakes of its past.