The New York Times is reporting that the Supreme Court seems likely to rule in favor of President Trump when it comes to turning away asylum seekers at the souther border.
Here’s what they write:
A majority of Supreme Court justices seemed sympathetic on Tuesday to the idea that the Trump administration should be able to turn away asylum seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
If the court backs the administration, it would allow President Trump to revive a policy first used in 2016, in which the government stopped asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where federal law would entitle them to try to claim asylum and receive protection from persecution.
Under federal law, any noncitizen who is “physically present in the United States” or “arrives in the United States” can apply for asylum. Migrants who announce their intention to do so are then referred for an interview to determine whether they have a credible fear of persecution.
At issue in the case is whether noncitizens must fully cross the border to gain the right to apply for asylum or if they must be allowed to apply if they merely appear at the border and seek entry.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has generally been receptive to the Trump administration’s assertions of presidential power, in a series of temporary orders that have allowed President Trump to implement his policies while litigation plays out in the lower courts. But last month the justices, including two of Mr. Trump’s nominees, invalidated his sweeping tariffs on imports from nearly every U.S. trading partner, in a rebuke of his signature economic policy.
A key question for the justices in Tuesday’s asylum case, which will likely be decided in late June or early July, is what exactly it means to “arrive” in the country. The justices spent more than an hour on the case, much of it spent struggling to parse the difference between a person who “arrives in” the United States and one who is “arriving at” the border.
I hope this is right. Asylum has been nothing but an excuse to let in millions upon millions by Obama and Joe Biden. It has been abused and it’s time for it to stop.