Sylwia Jankowski-Burczyk v. Immigration and Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that legal permanent residents and nonlegal permanent residents are not similarly situated for purposes of equal protection analysis
• noting that “tax laws may separately classify couples who are married and those who are unmarried” and “treat [those two groups] differently”
• “Of course, the government can treat persons differently if they are not ‘similarly situated.’” (citation omitted)
• “Aliens who disregard a final removal order and remain in the country illegally are not similarly situated to aliens who have complied with a final order but subsequently reenter the United States and try to seek relief.”
• “[W]e will assume that a statute is constitutional and the burden is on the one attacking the legislative arrangement to negative every conceivable basis which might support it, whether or not the basis has a foundation in the record.” (internal quotation marks omitted)

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