Mondaca-Vega v. Holder

N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judge,

dissenting in part, with whom THOMAS, Chief Judge, and PREGERSON and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, join in Part I, but concurring in Sections I — III and in the result of Section V and VI of the majority decision:

United States citizenship is “a right no less precious than life or liberty.” United States v. Dang, 488 F.3d 1135, 1138 (9th Cir.2007) (quoting Klapprott v. United States, 335 U.S. 601, 616, 69 S.Ct. 384, 93 L.Ed. 266 (1949) (Rutledge, J., concurring)). The Supreme Court has noted, “It is better that many ... immigrants should be improperly admitted than that…