The US Supreme Court has backed the Trump administration's border asylum policy in a 6-3 ruling, deciding that migrants standing on Mexican soil have not 'arrived in the United States' for the purpose of making asylum claims. Justice Sonia Sotomayor responded with a blunt warning in dissent: 'More people will die.'
The ruling gives the administration a stronger legal footing to restrict when and how asylum seekers can present claims at ports of entry along the US-Mexico border. It also settles a key dispute over how much power the government has to limit access to asylum before a migrant physically crosses onto US soil.
