Trump’s Bid to Shut America’s Doors to Asylum Seekers Reaches Supreme Court

The ban was introduced in 2025, shortly after Donald Trump returned to the White House.

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a challenge to President Donald Trump's ban on asylum applications at the US-Mexico border, a key part of his administration's wider crackdown on immigration.

The Trump administration is seeking to overturn lower court rulings that found the executive order imposing the ban unlawful.

Under federal law, people have the right to apply for asylum in the US if they fear persecution in their home countries, regardless of how they entered the country.

However, the law also gives the executive branch authority to decide whether an asylum application is granted. The Trump administration argues that it can reject applications from migrants covered by the order without first having to accept and process them if they are ultimately destined to be denied.

Government lawyers say lengthy processing times, which in some cases stretched over several years, had contributed to the influx of migrants at the southern border. Many were released into the US while waiting for decisions on their applications, they argue.

But lawyers representing migrants at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Immigrant Justice Center…

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