Supreme Court rules asylum-seekers may be turned around, siding with Trump

The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 along ideological lines that the government may legally turn back asylum-seekers who are attempting to reach a port of entry before they hit U.S. soil, greenlighting a now-rescinded immigration policy that the Trump administration wants the right to potentially revive.

The policy, called “metering,” began under former President Obama and ended several years ago.  

It enables border officials to turn back migrants before they can physically cross the border from Mexico into the U.S., preventing them from making an asylum claim.  

“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place — for example, a house, a city, or a country — before the person enters that place,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote for........

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