BREAKING: Supreme Court Sides with Trump, Allows Immigration Officials to Block Migrants Who Show Up at US-Mexico Border Seeking Asylum – Sotomayor Fumes

by Cristina Laila Jun. 25, 2026 9:45 am



The US Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the Trump Administration and allowed immigration officials to turn away migrants who show up at US-Mexico border seeking asylum.

In a 6-3 decision, the high court ruled that migrants cannot apply for asylum until they step foot in the United States.

The three liberal justices, Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson dissented.

In a rare move, Sotomayor read her dissent from the bench.

“The consequences of today’s decision are predictable,” Sotomayor read. “More people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not.”

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Alito wrote the majority opinion.

“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person “arrives in” a place—for example, a house, a city, or a country—before the person enters that place,” Alito wrote.

“The context in which the phrase “arrives in the United States” is used in the immigration statutes at issue here supports an ordinary-meaning reading. So does the presumption against extraterritoriality.

We therefore reverse,” Alito wrote.

Politico reported:

U.S. immigration officials can turn away asylum seekers at the Mexican border, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices greenlit a “metering” policy devised under the Obama administration and expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term, under which Customs and Border Protection agents posted on bridges between Mexico and the U.S. turned back many asylum seekers.

The high court’s ruling overturned lower-court decisions that found Congress intended to permit any immigrant approaching a border checkpoint to file for asylum.

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