Supreme Court to take up case over border asylum claim location

The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide whether the Trump administration can revive a policy from the president’s first term of denying asylum claims by preventing migrants from crossing the border from Mexico.

The Trump administration asked the justices to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which required border agents to accept asylum claims from immigrants who present themselves at the Mexican side of the border.

The case is the most high-profile immigration case the justices have accepted for this term, and they likely will hear arguments and issue a decision in the case before the conclusion of their term at the end of June.

The lawsuit turns on whether immigration officials can prevent asylum claims by stopping immigrants at the border, as t