The Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed open to arguments from the Trump administration that it has a right to turn asylum seekers away at border ports of entry, even if they have potentially valid claims and follow the legal process for pursuing them. Lower courts rejected the policy, but amid the immigration crackdown of Trump’s second term, the administration has sought the authority to reinstate it. You wouldn’t say, ‘At the United States.’ You would say, ‘In the United States.’ I am arriving ‘in Baltimore’ when I’m on the train and it’s coming in. (Today, asylum rights are essentially nonexistent along the border because of other Trump policies that face their own legal challenges.) “The question before the court is: What obligations did Congress impose in the asylum and inspection statutes, and those refer only to aliens who ‘arrive in’ the United States.”

Source: Huffington Post March 24, 2026 21:48 UTC