Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶57

Respondents’ remaining arguments fail. First, respondents are mistaken that the interpretation we adopt allows the Government to violate the obligations under the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, July 28, 1951, 189 U. N. T. S. 150, that the United States assumed through its accession to the 1967 Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees, Jan. 31, 1967, 19 U. S. T. 6223, T. I. A. S. No. 6577. The Protocol requires nations to comply with Articles 2 through 34 of the Convention. Article 33.1 provides that no nation “shall expel or return (‘refouler’) a refugee in any manner whatsoever to the frontiers of territories where his life or freedom would be threatened on account of” certain grounds. 19 U. S. T., at 6276. The Government’s metering policy, respondents press, flouts that obligation.

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