Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Just Got Two Big SCOTUS Wins (opens in new tab)

The Supreme Court has delivered President Trump two significant victories in his mass deportation campaign. On Thursday, the court’s conservative majority voted 6–3 in Mullin v. Al Otro Lado to approve a “metering” policy allowing Border Patrol agents to turn away migrants seeking asylum from the Mexican side of the southern border. The policy—introduced under the Obama administration and heavily expanded under Trump—will put the asylum hopes of hundreds of migrants and refugees at risk. “We ...