Sonia Sotomayor: “In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor masterfully exposed Alito’s extralegal interpretive maneuvers.”

In addition to being wrong on the merits, the Court’s decision inflicts two grave harms on the public.

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…

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.

at once the symbol of our democracy and the most pervasive means for promoting our common destiny.