WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) to allow him to enforce a ban on granting asylum to illegal immigrants, after suffering two lower court setbacks.
The Justice Department told the high court that the ban, announced by Trump on November 11, needed to be enforced immediately to deter thousands of Central Americans now at the US southern border from crossing into the country illegally in search of asylum.
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