Dominador S. Perdido and Melva Pating Liguigan Perdido v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

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• applying rational basis and finding that Congress made a “reasonable and rational distinction” with no “constitutional infirmity” when it only allowed citizens age 21 and older to confer immigration benefits on their parents.
• citizen child has not exercised a deliberate decision to make this country his home and has no ability to confer immigration benefits on his parents
• right of citizen-child to remain here not violated by deportation of alien parents
• minimum age limits for exercise of certain rights of aliens
• minimum age limits for exercise of certain rights of aliens

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).