Supreme Court allows Trump to thwart asylum scam

Washington Examiner:

The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration to fully enforce a new policy aimed at curbing Central American migrants’ ability to claim asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, handing a victory to President Trump in his efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.

The Supreme Court's decision came down Wednesday evening, with Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissenting. The high court lifted a lower court order that blocked the Trump administration from broadly enforcing the new rule for asylum-seekers, under which migrants arriving at the southern border are ineligible for asylum unless they have sought refugee status in one of the countries they traveled through first.

The ruling allows the Trump administration to require immigrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border to apply for asylum first in countries they are traveling through to get to the United States, with a few exceptions, while litigation continues.

A federal district judge in San Francisco issued a nationwide injunction in July that stopped the restrictions from taking effect, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed the injunction last month to apply only within states covered by the 9th Circuit, including the border states of California and Arizona.

The 9th Circuit’s ruling gave the Trump administration a partial victory, as federal immigration authorities appeared to be given the green light to enforce the restrictions in New Mexico and Texas. But U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar again blocked the policy nationwide in September, and on Tuesday night, the 9th Circuit again halted Tigar's nationwide injunction.

Unveiled July 15, the rule from the departments of Homeland Security and Justice places sharp restrictions on migrants from Central America who seek asylum protections at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The rule brought a challenge from a coalition of immigrant rights groups, which are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
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Approximately 90 percent of the applications are turned down because they do not meet the requirements.  But they use the scam to get theri foot in the door of the US and then melt into the cities where the Democrats want to count them in the census in order to steal House seats.  It si about time this scam was stopped.