Supreme Court Agrees to Review Policy of Rejecting Asylum Seekers in Mexico

The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 17 agreed to review an Obama-era policy that allowed border officials to reject asylum seekers before they arrived in the United States.

The Trump administration is appealing a lower court’s ruling that the policy, known as “metering,” which lets U.S. immigration officials decline to process claims of asylum seekers at the border, runs afoul of federal law.