Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶102

The question before this Court is whether §§1225(a) and 1158(a)(1) require the Government to inspect, and to process asylum applications from, noncitizens who arrive at ports of entry but who have not yet stepped across the border. The majority says that they do not, concluding that a noncitizen who walks up to the threshold of a port of entry and is blocked by a CBP officer from stepping foot across the border is not someone who “arrives in the United States” and has not therefore triggered these obligations.

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