President Donald Trump won a major asylum ruling from the US Supreme Court on 25 June 2026, when the Justices backed his administration's authority to stop some asylum seekers from entering US territory at the Mexico border, a decision that tightens federal asylum protections and strengthens the White House's hardline immigration agenda.
The ruling came after months of increasingly aggressive immigration measures from Trump's second term, including a January order that declared an 'invasion' at the southern border and halted asylum claims on US soil, plus later steps that cut refugee resettlement, humanitarian parole and other pathways to protection.
