Blanche v. Lau · ¶65

The majority’s contrary view rests on a misguided view of §1101(a)(13)(C). According to the majority, Congress provided LPRs with a default claim to already-admitted status at the border with one hand, while snatching away that entitlement with the other by enabling the Government to override it with impunity. Such an interpretation mistakenly allows the statutory exceptions to swallow the default rule. And it devalues an LPR’s “weighty” rights “to stay and live and work in this land of freedom” and to rejoin her family in the United States. Landon v. Plasencia, 459 U. S. 21, 32–34 (1982) (internal quotation marks omitted).

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