Preventing illegal immigrants from crossing the U.S.–Mexico border if U.S. officials say a port of entry is at capacity is illegal, a federal appeals court ruled on Oct. 23.
One judge dissented.
The so-called metering policy, implemented in 2016 under President Barack Obama and continued under President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, saw federal immigration officials refuse to let illegal immigrants cross into the United States if the number of border crossers at ports exceeded a certain number.
“If we don’t have the resources to let them in on a particular day, they are going to have to come back,” Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said on cable television in 2018….