U.S. President Donald Trump

US Supreme Court rejects Trump request

December 22, 2018

The US Supreme Court has rejected a request from the Donald Trump administration to begin enforcing a ban on asylum for immigrants who illegally cross the US-Mexico border…reports Asian Lite News

U.S. President Donald Trump

The narrow 5-4 ruling, with Chief Justice John Roberts siding with his four more liberal colleagues, left in place lower court rulings that blocked a proclamation by President Donald Trump in November denying asylum to those entering the country from Mexico, without going through official border crossings.

Trump has said the proclamation was in response to caravans of Central American migrants making their way to the US border through Mexico.

The administration has said the rule sought to crack down what it called “meritless asylum claims from aliens who place a tremendous burden on our resources”.

Critics have seen the move as unlawful and needlessly cruel to asylum seekers.

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