The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider President Donald Trump’s ban on asylum applications at the US-Mexico border, taking up the administration’s bid to overturn lower court decisions that found the executive order illegal. The ban, imposed when Trump returned to office in 2025, has remained in place during the litigation, and the administration argues it can categorically deny asylum to migrants covered by the order rather than accept applications it expects to reject. Attorneys for the American Civil Liberties Union and the National Immigrant Justice Center counter that asylum decisions are supposed to be made on an individual basis and that the law does not allow the president to stop people from applying at all.
Supreme Court to hear challenge to Trump's border asylum ban
The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to consider President Donald Trump's ban on asylum applications at the US-Mexico border, taking up the administration's bid to overturn lower court rulings that found the executive order illegal.
Why it matters: The case will decide whether a president can bar asylum applications categorically at the border, rather than deciding claims one by one as federal law has been read to require.
Data as of Associated Press report via The Guardian, published November 13, 2026 and read in full; the Supreme Court's order itself was not read in this pass, and no argument date was given. Developing item.
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- US supreme court agrees to consider Trump's ban on asylum at US-Mexico border - Associated Press, via The Guardian - 2026-11-13