A U.S. Supreme Court ruling will allow enforcement of a new Trump administration policy to deny asylum for most migrants coming to the southern border.
“It is especially concerning, moreover, that the rule the government promulgated topples decades of settled asylum practices and affects some of the most vulnerable people in the Western Hemisphere — without affording the public a chance to weigh in,” The Trump administration unveiled the policy in July, but it was blocked from taking effect by alower court ruling in California almost immediately. Since then, courts nationwide have gone back and forth about the implementation of the policy.
The ruling marks the third time that the Supreme Court has allowed an immigration initiative from the Trump administration. The court allowed the administration to use $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build a wall along the Mexican border in July. Last year, the court upheld Trump’s travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries.seeking asylum in the U.S. from Central and South America.
Most of the migrants coming through the southwestern U.S. border are from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala. So far in 2019, U.S. Border Patrol has arrested 419,831 migrant family members from those countries, compared with 4,312 family members from Mexico.I am a Texas native interning at the Forbes office in London, and have previously been published in London and Austin newspapers.
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