Mullin v. Al Otro Lado · ¶66

The Court’s opinion correctly holds that an alien “who seeks to enter the United States from Mexico” does not “‘arriv[e] in the United States’ when he or she is still in Mexico.” Ante, at 1 (footnote omitted). I join it in full. I write separately to address two further problems with the decision below. First, the District Court appeared to effectively grant the classwide injunctive relief that Congress has prohibited in this context. See 8 U. S. C. §1252(f )(1). Second, the relief that the District Court provided may well have unconstitutionally infringed on the President’s inherent authority to exclude aliens from the country.

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