Where would we be as a country if this ruling had been made just six years ago? The justices ruled 6-3 in favor of a policy known as “metering,” in use during President Trump’s first term as well as Barack Obama’s administration, which capped the number of people who could apply for asylum each day.
Immigration advocates had argued the policy violated federal law, which states that migrants can apply for asylum after they “arrive” in the US, and claimed that aliens should be considered to have done so once they reached the border.
“In ordinary speech, no one would say that a person ‘arrives in’ a place - for example, a house, a city, or a country - before the person enters that place,” Republican-appointed Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the majority opinion.
God - that makes so much sense, doesn't it? What they're saying, in essence, is that just because you got your foot in the door, that doesn't mean you belong in the living room, on the couch, watching soccer and eating fuckin' Doritos that someone you don't know paid for. Or something like that...
