MIAMI - A Supreme Court decision allowing the Trump administration to revive a restrictive asylum policy at the U.S.-Mexico border is intensifying fears in South Florida that a broader immigration crackdown could hit one of the region's most vulnerable economic pillars: its immigrant workforce.
The ruling, issued in a 6-3 decision, cleared the way for the administration to potentially bring back "metering," a policy that limits how many asylum seekers can be processed each day at the border. The policy does not immediately revoke work permits for asylum applicants already living in the United States. But in Miami, where immigrants make up the backbone of key industries, advocates and business groups warn that the decision adds momentum to a wider set of Trump administration moves that could remove hundreds of thousands of workers from the labor market.
