Supreme Court Agrees to Review Trump Border Asylum Ban

The Supreme Court agreed Friday to consider President Donald Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border, a pillar of his immigration crackdown. The administration is asking the justices to overturn lower court decisions that found the ban illegal.

Federal law generally grants people the right to seek asylum regardless of how they arrived, but the government argues it can categorically deny asylum to migrants covered by the order. Immigration attorneys with the ACLU and National Immigrant Justice Center counter that border crossings were already falling before Trump took office and that the order unlawfully tries to unilaterally eviscerate legal protections.

The ban, introduced in 2025, has remained in place during litigation. The justices are expected to hear the case in the coming months and decide by the end of June. This is the third major immigration case this term, alongside disputes over swift deportations to other countries and indefinite detention.