WASHINGTON, United States, March 24, 2026 (BSS/AFP) - The US Supreme Court on Tuesday was examining a former policy of turning away migrants before they crossed the US-Mexico border to present an asylum claim. The Immigration and Nationality Act allows an "alien who is physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States" to apply for asylum. The Trump administration is asking the conservative-dominated Supreme Court to reject this interpretation. The question before the Supreme Court is "whether an alien who is stopped on the Mexican side of the US-Mexico border 'arrives in the United States.'" The asylum case is one of a number of immigration-related cases the Supreme Court has agreed to hear this year.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha March 24, 2026 17:08 UTC