Supreme Court Rules Asylum Seekers May Be Turned Away at the Border

The 6–3 decision allowed a ’metering policy' developed by the Obama administration and continued in Trump’s first term.

Members of the Central American migrant caravan listen to Erika Pinheiro, litigation director for Al Otro Lado, instructing them on the U.S. asylum process at a municipal sports complex in Zone Norte near the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana on Nov. 19, 2018. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

The Supreme Court on June 25 ruled that the government can turn away asylum-seekers at the border, clarifying a law that requires individuals to be inspected when they arrive in the United States.

“This case presents a straightforward question: whether an alien who seeks to enter the United States from Mexico ‘arrives in the United States’ when he or she is still in Mexico,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote on behalf of the majority.