Trump administration’s claim it has authority to ‘meter’ applications may turn on definition of arriving in US
The US supreme court agreed on Monday to hear a defense by the Trump administration of the government’s authority to limit the processing of asylum claims at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border.
The court took up the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s determination that the “metering” policy, under which US immigration officials could stop asylum seekers at the border and decline to process their claims, violated federal law.
The policy was rescinded by former US president Joe Biden, but Donald Trump’s administration has indicated it would consider resuming it. The supreme court is expected to hear the case and issue a ruling by the end of June.
The metering policy is separate from the sweeping ban on asylum at the US-Mexico border that Trump issued after returning to the presidency on 20 January. That policy faces an ongoing legal challenge.
