Supreme Court will consider Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border

Summary

The Supreme Court agreed on Friday 13 November to decide whether the administration has the authority to ban asylum claims at the southern border, taking up another key aspect of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration agenda, NBC News reported, The Philadelphia Inquirer headlining that the court will consider Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border. Federal law gives people the right to seek asylum if they fear persecution in their home countries, no matter how they arrived in the U.S., and the Trump administration wants to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications is illegal, PBS NewsHour reported. The court agreed to consider letting Trump keep broadly barring asylum applications from people who have crossed the southern border, Bloomberg reported, and CBS News wrote that the case involving the president's directives suspending access to the asylum system is the latest involving the president's second-term immigration agenda.

Latest: The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether the administration has the authority to ban asylum claims at the southern border, NBC News reported, The Philadelphia Inquirer, PBS NewsHour, CBS News and Bloomberg reporting the same decision, the Trump administration wanting to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications is illegal, according to PBS NewsHour.

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