Sonia Sotomayor: “This is not the first time the Court closes its eyes to noncompliance, nor, I fear, will it be the last.”

The point, however, is not that illegal entry always produces a net windfall for asylum seekers; it is that Congress was unlikely to devise a system in which asylum is available to those who unlawfully set foot over the border, but not to…

The consequences of today’s decision are predictable. More people will die.

Congress created the Department, and only Congress can abolish it.

More people will turn back and be subjected to violence because of something they cannot or should not have to change about themselves, such as their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.