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Supreme Court Lets New Trump Asylum Restrictions Take Effect
September 11th, 2019
Migrants walk in Chiapas state, Mexico on July 25, 2019. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)
The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new immigration rules against asylum seekers at the southern border.
The high court did not give reasons for its Wednesday night decision or disclose a vote count, as is typical of orders of this nature. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a short dissent, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined.
In effect, the restrictions deny asylum to migrants who pass through another country on their way to the U.S. without first seeking protected status there. Border Patrol has intercepted approximately 350,000 asylum seekers from the northern triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in 2019. The new restrictions would generally deny asylum to those migrants if they did not first seek protection in Mexico.
The rule includes exceptions for victims of human trafficking or migrants who were denied asylum elsewhere. President Donald Trump cast the ruling as a significant victory in a tweet following the decision.
Supreme Court Lets New Trump Asylum Restrictions Take Effect
September 11th, 2019

Migrants walk in Chiapas state, Mexico on July 25, 2019. (Alfredo Estrella/AFP/Getty Images)
- The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new restrictions on asylum seekers at the southern border.
- In practice, the new rules would deny asylum to any migrant who passed through another country without first seeking protected status there.
- A federal judge in California issued a nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the rules, prompting several rounds of breakneck lawyering between the government and liberal groups that oppose the measure.
The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to enforce new immigration rules against asylum seekers at the southern border.
The high court did not give reasons for its Wednesday night decision or disclose a vote count, as is typical of orders of this nature. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a short dissent, which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg joined.
In effect, the restrictions deny asylum to migrants who pass through another country on their way to the U.S. without first seeking protected status there. Border Patrol has intercepted approximately 350,000 asylum seekers from the northern triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras in 2019. The new restrictions would generally deny asylum to those migrants if they did not first seek protection in Mexico.
The rule includes exceptions for victims of human trafficking or migrants who were denied asylum elsewhere. President Donald Trump cast the ruling as a significant victory in a tweet following the decision.