Asylum Ruling Signals Larger Separation Of Powers Battle
Abstract
Some U.S. Supreme Court decisions answer difficult legal questions. Others reveal how the court understands the U.S. Constitution itself. The court's recent ruling in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado does both. On its surface, the decision resolves a narrow question of statutory interpretation: whether asylum-seekers who are physically prevented by federal officials from stepping onto U.S. soil have arrived in the U.S. for purposes of the Immigration and Nationality Act. By holding that they have not, the court permits federal officials to turn asylum-seekers away at ports of entry without providing the inspection and asylum procedures Congress requires, fundamentally reshaping access to humanitarian protection at the nation's borders.
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https://www.law360.com/articles/2501659
Source Publication
LexisNexis Law360
Repository Citation
Dree Collopy,
Asylum Ruling Signals Larger Separation Of Powers Battle,
LexisNexis Law360
(2026).
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.wcl.american.edu/pub_disc_media/680
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