The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 17 agreed to review an Obama-era policy that allowed border officials to reject asylum seekers before they arrived in the United States.
The Trump administration is appealing a lower court’s ruling that the policy, known as “metering,” that lets U.S. immigration officials decline to process claims of asylum seekers at the border, runs afoul of federal law.
The Biden administration ended the policy, but the Trump administration is considering reinstituting it.
The justices granted the Trump administration’s petition in Noem v. Al Otro Lado without comment in an unsigned order. No justices dissented….