High court's action to allow Trump to deny asylum reverses years of US policy

Justices’ order reverses a lower court ruling that blocked the plan to prevent immigrants from seeking asylum

The supreme court ruled on Wednesday to allow the Trump administration to enforce nationwide restrictions that would prevent most Central American immigrants from seeking asylum in the US.

The administration announced in July a new policy that would deny asylum to anyone who passes through another country on their way to the US without seeking protection there first, therefore effecting almost all migrants who arrive at the US-Mexico border.