Supreme Court rules in favor of two key immigration restriction policies

The Supreme Court on Thursday handed Donald Trump two rare wins in a huge victory for his hardline immigration agenda. 

The Court cleared the way for Trump to revoke temporary protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian nationals living in the United States – siding with the President on one of the most closely watched and consequential immigration cases this term.

And the Justices also decided to give Trump more authority to limit asylum seekers in the US coming from Mexico.

In Mullin v. Al Otro Lado, the high court ruled 6-3 to grant Trump administration’s request to revive a controversial ‘metering’ policy that allows federal immigration officers to turn away asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border. 

Justices ruled along ideological lines that migrants seeking refuge do not ‘arrive’ in the country by ‘attempting, and failing, to step foot’ in the United States – clearing the way for the administration to restart its so-called ‘turn back’ policy. 

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