Sonia Sotomayor: “The Government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law.”

This Court has previously recognized that immigration statutes and procedures should not be construed to ‘create a perverse incentive to enter at an unlawful rather than a lawful location. Yet, the majority’s construction does exactly that.

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.

Equity does not support such an inequitable result.

I respectfully dissent.