Sonia Sotomayor: “Ignoring things and saying, you know, it doesn't happen isn't an answer to a situation.”

The benefits are immense.

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

The majority ignores that 'arrival' and 'arriving' in the immigration context have never focused on the precise location of a noncitizen’s feet.

In the end, to the Court, the facts do not matter, even though the consequences are serious.