Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶113

Here, even if Congress could have been clearer in the words that it chose, the statutory context and history plainly show that Congress used the phrase “arrives in the United States” to capture all those in the process of arriving, even before stepping foot onto U. S. soil.

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