{"id":3884,"date":"2019-09-20T18:28:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=3884"},"modified":"2019-09-20T18:28:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T18:28:33","slug":"us-supreme-court-approves-trump-asylum-curbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2019\/09\/20\/us-supreme-court-approves-trump-asylum-curbs\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court approves Trump asylum curbs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Supreme Court<\/a> has allowed a new Trump<\/a> administration rule, preventing most people at the US-Mexico border<\/a> from claiming asylum, to temporarily take effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current White House<\/a> policy aims to deny asylum to anyone who passes through a safe country on the way to the US<\/a> without seeking protection there first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vast majority of migrants at the border come from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, meaning in most cases they will be expected to apply for asylum in Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The policy is currently subject to legal challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If it is upheld, it would reverse decades of\u00a0immigration policy and prevent anyone other than Mexicans and Canadians from first seeking asylum in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the order issued by the Supreme Court late on Wednesday reverses that ruling and allows the policy to go into effect while the appeals process continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBIG United States Supreme Court WIN for the Border on Asylum!\u201d Donald Trump<\/a> said on Twitter, following the announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Trump\u2019s administration has struck an increasingly aggressive tone on immigration at the southern border. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Most of the people at the US-Mexico<\/a> border are Central Americans<\/a> seeking to escape poverty and violence in their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The majority of this group will be ineligible for asylum in the US under the new rule, as will those from\u00a0Africa<\/a>,\u00a0Asia<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0South America<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is just a temporary step, and we\u2019re hopeful we\u2019ll prevail at the end of the day,\u201d said Lee Gelernt, an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyer representing immigration advocacy groups in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe lives of thousands of families are at stake.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May, Amnesty International USA\u2019s advocacy director for the Americas condemned the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis latest policy is a disgusting example of the lengths the Trump administration will go to to deny people protection,\u201d Charanya Krishnaswami<\/a> said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numerous courts have already considered the policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A judge in San Francisco<\/a> first blocked the rule from taking effect in a late July hearing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That ruling was later narrowed by an appeals court, so it only applied to Arizona<\/a> and California<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s order allows the Trump administration to enforce the rule across the US<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is unclear how quickly the policy will be enforced and how it fits in with other administration efforts to tighten asylum rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 30,000 people have already been turned back from the border and sent to Mexico<\/a>, to wait for the resolution of their asylum claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands more are waiting at the border to be allowed to submit a claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the moment many\u00a0asylum seekers at the border pass an initial\u00a0screening, known as a \u201ccredible fear\u201d interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court has allowed a new Trump administration rule, preventing most people at the US-Mexico border from claiming asylum, to temporarily take effect. Current White House policy aims to deny asylum to anyone who passes through a safe country on the way to the US without seeking protection there first. The vast majority of migrants at the border come from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, meaning in most cases they will be… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3884\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}