The Supreme Court has become a pivotal force in President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda, with several key decisions in recent years. The Court has allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protections for people fleeing war or strife, given immigration officers greater leeway in dealing with green card holders returning from abroad, and allowed the government to limit the number of people who can apply for asylum.

Birthright Citizenship Upheld

The Trump administration had sought to prevent children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily from being entitled to American citizenship at birth. However, the Supreme Court upheld the concept of birthright citizenship, with a bare majority of five justices saying that the long-settled understanding of the 14th Amendment grants citizenship to anyone born in the U.S.

The Court’s decision was praised by advocates but led to calls by some Republicans to try to restrict birthright citizenship by other means. Mark Krikorian, who heads the Center for Immigration Studies, said the decision makes the president’s push for large-scale deportations “all the more urgent,” with the goal of removing people in the country illegally before they have children.

Temporary Protections Removed

The Court allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants who have fled violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria. The decision potentially leaves hundreds of thousands of more people unable to work in the U.S. and vulnerable to deportation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The Court’s conservative majority found that the law doesn’t allow courts to question the process that immigration authorities use to revoke the protections. The high court sided with the administration before and allowed the end of the program for people from Venezuela.

Asylum Applicants Limited

The ruling cleared the way for the Trump administration to potentially revive the policy of limiting the number of people who can apply for asylum every day at the southern border with Mexico. The administration argued that asylum-metering was an important tool and that people turned away at the border could come back later.

Original reporting: KTBS 3 (Shreveport) — read the source article.