Sonia Sotomayor: “a judge had to come to the process understanding the importance and respect the Constitution must receive”

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

I respectfully dissent.

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.