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JONATHAN TURLEY: Supreme Court hands Trump a border victory liberals can't spin

The Trump administration regained substantial authority in the management of our borders

By Jonathan Turley Fox News

Published June 25, 2026 3:45pm EDT

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Supreme Court sides with Trump admin on border and immigration policies

The Supreme Court hands the Trump administration two major wins on immigration. Jonathan Turley and Shannon Bream join 'The Faulkner Focus' to weigh in.

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"In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place ... before the person enters that place."

Those words may seem ripped from the pages of Dr. Seuss, but they are taken from the 6-3 majority opinion of Justice Samuel Alito iin Mullin v. Al Otro Lado. They captured the lost-in-translation character of the Court's fight over whether undocumented persons must be physically present in the United States to make an asylum claim.

In one of a pair of major immigration wins for the Trump administration, the Court ruled that asylum seekers who are stopped on the other side of the Southern border are not present in the United States. If treated as inside the country despite being outside it, these individuals would be allowed to enter and remain while their asylum claims are pending.

The case highlights the lengths to which the Biden administration went to facilitate the entry of undocumented persons into the country. It rescinded a policy of "metering" that was put into place by the Obama administration (and later restored and expanded by the Trump administration).

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