Sonia Sotomayor: “I do not believe that foreign law should be used to determine the result under constitutional law or American 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.

Before the Court are two paths.

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

The majority’s opinion ends by reciting the many wonderful ways in which playing sports can be valuable to young people.