Ruling clears way for stricter border policy and further backs his immigration agenda.

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to reject asylum seekers who apply at the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The ruling, which passed by a 6-3 vote with dissenting votes from the court’s liberal justices, clears the way for Trump to reinstate his policy aimed at reducing the number of migrants that southern border authorities must process to determine whether they are entitled to seek refuge in the United States.

The question under debate was whether non-U.S. citizens must fully cross the border to obtain the right to apply for asylum or whether they may be allowed to seek asylum simply by presenting themselves at the border.

For decades, the U.S. government has interpreted the law as granting the right to apply for asylum at border crossings if the applicant fears persecution based on race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs.

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The key issue before the justices in this case was defining exactly what it means to “arrive” in the country. The conservative-controlled court said that migrants who remain in Mexico do not “arrive” merely by “attempting, unsuccessfully, to enter this country.”

The Trump administration had asked the Supreme Court to allow the government to reinstate the measure, first used in 2016, as part of the U.S. president’s hard-line immigration campaign.

Under the return policy, the government had prevented asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil, where federal law would have granted them the right to apply for asylum and receive protection.

Previously, the Supreme Court also backed Trump’s immigration approach when it upheld the revocation of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian immigrants, a decision that could leave nearly 360,000 people without immigration protection.

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