FILE PHOTO: Drivers cross northward through the Dennis DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, January 24, 2025. REUTERS/Rebecca Noble/File Photo
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a defense by President Donald Trump's administration of the government's authority to limit the processing of asylum claims at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The court took up the administration's appeal of a lower court's determination that the "metering" policy, under which U.S. immigration officials could stop asylum seekers at the border and decline to process their claims, violated federal law. The policy was rescinded by former President Joe Biden, but Trump's administration has indicated it would consider resuming it.
