"Under the first Trump administration, people seeking asylum at the United States-Mexico border would typically be met by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents who would turn them away. While some cases of asylum seekers being turned away at the San Ysidro border crossing occurred in 2016, the turn-back policies, called "metering" by the government, weren't written and widely instituted until the first Trump administration. This turn-back policy created a humanitarian crisis at the border that impacted thousands of people seeking refuge from danger."
""People have sought safety at the border from all over the world fleeing violence, persecution, and discrimination, and that is really why asylum is so critically important," said Amy Fischer, director of refugee and migrant rights at Amnesty International USA. "People are fleeing real life-threatening harms, and this is really the mechanism for them to find a way for safety.""
An appeal at the Supreme Court seeks to reinstate a Trump-era asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border, raising fears that asylum seekers will be turned away and exposed to harm. Asylum offers protection from violence, war, climate-driven threats, and persecution based on sexual orientation or gender identity. Tens of thousands of people present themselves yearly at the border; the U.S. granted asylum to 54,350 people in 2023. Immigrant justice advocates warn that reinstating turn-back policies known as metering created a humanitarian crisis during the first Trump administration. Civil-rights groups sued in Noem v. Al Otro Lado to challenge those policies.
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