In Blow to Asylum Rights, Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Block Asylum Seekers at Border (opens in new tab)

The Supreme Court ruled today that the Trump administration could turn back asylum seekers at ports of entry along the southern border, and that doing so does not violate federal immigration law. The case, Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, addressed a now-defunct policy, under which immigration officers at official border crossings physically and indefinitely blocked […] The post appeared first on .