Supreme Court will consider Trump’s executive order suspending asylum access at southern border

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum at the southern border, a pillar of the Republican president’s far-reaching crackdown on immigration. The Trump administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order banning asylum applications illegal. It’s the latest in a series of immigration cases before the high court. Federal law gives people the right to seek asylum if they fear persecution in their home countries, no matter how they arrived in the U.S. At the same time, it also allows the executive branch to decide whether people are granted asylum. The Trump administration argues it can categorically deny asylum to migrants covered by the order and should not have to accept applications destined to be rejected.

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