The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration two major immigration victories on Thursday, siding with the administration in a pair of closely watched cases involving asylum policy and deportation protections.
In a 6-3 ruling authored by Justice Samuel Alito, the court upheld the federal government’s authority to turn away asylum seekers at ports of entry through a policy known as “metering,” rejecting arguments that federal law requires officials to process every migrant who arrives at the border seeking asylum.
The Court also ruled 6-3 that the Trump administration can move forward with ending Temporary Protected Status for roughly 350,000 Haitian immigrants and 6,000 Syrians currently living in the United States. Justice Alito again wrote the decision and said that federal courts exceeded their authority by second-guessing the administration’s immigration determinations.
Both decisions split along ideological lines and represent significant wins for President Donald Trump’s broader effort to tighten immigration enforcement and allow for closer control over migration.
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