Liberty Headlines: SCOTUS Allows ‘Remain in Mexico’ Asylum Policy to Continue

IRLI In The News

March 11, 2020

The Supreme Court saud on Wednesday it would allow the Trump administration to continue enforcing a policy that makes asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for U.S. court hearings, despite lower courts who ruled the policy was illegal.

The justices’ 8-1 ruling, with a dissenting vote by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, overturns a lower court order that would have blocked the policy, at least for people arriving at the border crossings in Arizona and California. The lower court order was to have taken effect on Thursday. Read the full story at Liberty Headlines.

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