Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it enforce asylum policy

By Melissa Quinn

Published December 12, 2018 3:28pm ET

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Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it enforce asylum policy — A girl waves to a young man watching from Mexican territory who said he was her cousin, as a group of Honduran asylum seekers is taken into custody by U.S. Border Patrol agents after the group crossed the U.S. border wall into San Diego, California, seen from Tijuana, Mexico, Monday, Dec. 10, 2018. | (Rebecca Blackwell/AP)

The Justice Department is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to enforce its policy effectively prohibiting asylum for migrants who illegally cross the southern border.

In a filing with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, Solicitor General Noel Francisco requested the justices put on hold an order from the U.S. district court in San Francisco, which blocks the administration from enforcing President Trump’s asylum policy.

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