Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶115

Context leads to the same conclusion here. Requiring an asylum seeker to plant a foot across the border to become an “applicant for admission,” §1225(a)(1), might be plausible looking at the words “arrives in” in a vacuum, but it makes a hash of the statutory scheme overall. Instead, construing text in context, an asylum seeker can be fairly said to “arriv[e] in the United States” for purposes of being an applicant for admission and seeking asylum when she walks up to a port of entry and physically presents herself to an immigration officer who is standing on U. S. soil.

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