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#SCOTUS announced Monday that it will review a controversial #immigration policy adopted during the first #Trump administration of turning away potential #asylum seekers before they step foot on American soil, setting up the first major immigration policy case of the term.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/17/politics/supreme-court-trump-asylum-seekers?cid=ios_app
Federal #law requires the government to process #asylum seekers who arrive at ports of entry. But in 2018, #Trump’s first admin began a policy known as “metering,” in which border agents simply turned back potential asylum seekers to Mexico before they entered the US.
An immigrant rights group, Al Otro Lado, & several asylum seekers filed a lawsuit in California challenging the policy. An appeals court based in SF sided with the migrants. The Trump admin appealed to #SCOTUS in July.
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