{"id":3571,"date":"2026-06-25T18:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:05:40","slug":"more-people-will-die-read-justice-sotomayors-blistering-dissent-in-supreme-courts-decision-on-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3571","title":{"rendered":"\u2018More people will die\u2019: Read Justice Sotomayor\u2019s blistering dissent in Supreme Court\u2019s decision on asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 conservative majority handed the Trump administration yet another win in the president\u2019s efforts to crackdown on immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3569\">R.I. Governor Dan McKee vetoes bill requiring energy reports for big buildings<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Justices ruled on Thursday to clear the way for the Trump administration to restore a policy of limiting the number of people who can apply for asylum each day, overturning a lower court order blocking its use. It had previously been deployed by both the Obama and Trump administrations to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the US-Mexico border. The decision gives President Trump the chance to go back to the previous policyas he seeks to curb immigration into the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>, Justice Samuel Alito, a Bush-appointee, said in part that the case hinges on the \u201cordinary meaning\u201d of if someone \u201carrives in the United States.\u201d The Justice Department had argued that people stopped by authorities along the US border haven\u2019t yet arrived in the country, so immigration agents don\u2019t have to let them apply for asylum under federal law. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cA guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door,\u201d Alito wrote. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The ruling invoked a blistering 35-page dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who wrote for the three liberal justices that the \u201cconsequences of today\u2019s decision are predictable.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMore people will die. More people will attempt to cross the border illegally, and some will make it while others will not,\u201d the Obama-appointee said. Sotomayor chose to read her dissent out loud, a rare decision that justices often reserve for instances where they gravely disagree with the majority. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cMore people will be forced to walk along the US-Mexico border in dangerous conditions, trying to find a port that will inspect them. More people will turn back and be subjected to violence because of something they cannot or shout not have to change about themselves, such as their race, religion, nationality, or political opinion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3567\">Florida\u2019s \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 immigration detention center is closing, governor says<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span>Liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a separate dissent that the majority\u2019s decision was \u201cunwise\u201d given that the metering policy is not currently in use.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn its rush to greenlight this retired practice, the majority elides serious justiciability concerns and decides legal issues entirely in the abstract,\u201d Jackson wrote in part. \u201cI respectfully dissent from the Court\u2019s unwise decision to plow ahead nevertheless.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Reports from inside the courtroom Thursday said Alito, in another unusual move, responded to Sotomayor\u2019s decision to read her dissent out loud and defended the majority\u2019s opinion by noting the policy was used in two presidential administrations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI won\u2019t add anything more to that,\u201d Alito said, per the Associated Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Metering was first used under the Obama administration and expanded during Trump\u2019s first term. The policy ended in 2020 after greater immigration restrictions were introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and former president Joe Biden rescinded the policy in 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court\u2019s conservative justices on Thursday also granted the Trump administration the ability to end temporary protections for Haitians and Syrians to live and work legally in the US on humanitarian grounds \u2014 another boost to Trump\u2019s federal immigration crackdown. In 2025, the justices ruled that agents can question a person on their immigration status solely based on their race.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3565\">Reflecting Pool liner was cut with a sharp knife or razor, National Park Service says<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span><i>Material from the Associated Press was used in this report.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court\u2019s 6-3 conservative majority handed the Trump administration yet another win in the president\u2019s efforts to crackdown on immigration. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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