Supreme Court authorizes Trump administration to enforce the toughest restrictions ever imposed on migrants' asylum applications

Late last Wednesday, the US Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to enforce the toughest restrictions ever imposed on asylum seekers on the southern border, even though a lawsuit to stop this new policy is still pending before the lower courts.

As a result, the government can now refuse to consider an asylum request from anyone who did not make the request in another country after leaving their country but before coming here. In concrete terms, this means that migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador can not seek asylum in the United States if they have not first applied for asylum in the United States. in Mexico.