The June 26 front-page article “Migrants must enter into U.S. for asylum” quoted Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s warning that Mullin v. Al Otro Lado will push more people to cross the border illegally. She is right about the danger. But if the government may block asylum seekers at ports of entry before they are deemed to have arrived in the United States, many will be forced toward the very crossings the government then condemns.
