[ti:US Supreme Court: New Asylum Rule Can Go Forward]
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[00:00.01]The United States Supreme Court ruled late Wednesday to lift court orders 
[00:06.75]blocking a new rule on asylum seekers at the southern U.S. border.
[00:14.30]The court ruling requires these individuals to seek asylum 
[00:20.68]in the countries they pass through on their way to the United States. 
[00:27.23]If their requests are then denied, they may ask the U.S. government for asylum.
[00:35.85]The court's ruling cancels orders by lower courts and permits the new policy to go into effect.
[00:46.04]Two of the nine Supreme Court justices 
[00:50.20]-- Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- disagreed, or dissented.
[00:58.44]After a legal challenge to the new policy, U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar in San Francisco 
[01:08.89]ordered in July that the policy be blocked all over the country. 
[01:15.72]The government appealed the judge's decision.
[01:20.45]A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals then ruled 
[01:28.76]that the new policy could only be blocked in the states of Arizona and California, 
[01:36.38]where the 9th Circuit Court has jurisdiction.
[01:42.16]That meant the administration of President Donald Trump 
[01:47.69]could enforce the rule in the states of New Mexico and Texas.
[01:54.05]Then on Monday, Tigar released a new order again blocking the policy everywhere in the U.S. 
[02:05.41]The following day, the 9th Circuit court again limited Tigar's order to the states of California and Arizona.
[02:17.02]The Supreme Court's decision on Wednesday permits the new rule to go forward 
[02:24.82]as legal action against it continues to go through the court system.
[02:32.37]Thousands of people have been put on waiting lists at border crossings in Mexico 
[02:40.26]to make asylum claims in the U.S. 
[02:44.65]More than 30,000 people have been turned back to Mexico 
[02:50.30]to wait out their asylum claims there, the Associated Press reports.
[02:57.77]People seeking asylum in the U.S. must pass a screening called a "credible fear" interview. 
[03:07.64]It is meant to find out whether asylum-seekers face danger in their home country. 
[03:16.93]Most people pass this step in the process and must wait for further action. 
[03:24.92]However, under the new rule, candidates cannot pass unless they have sought asylum 
[03:33.55]in at least one country they traveled through, and were denied.
[03:39.20]In publishing the new rules, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said 
[03:47.60]it faces more requests than it can deal with. 
[03:51.76]Of the 900,000 immigration cases waiting trial, 436,000 include asylum applications, it said.
[04:05.25]Lee Gelernt is the American Civil Liberties Union lawyer 
[04:11.96]who is representing pro-immigration groups in the case. 
[04:17.74]He said the decision is temporary and that he believes he will win the case. 
[04:25.61]"The lives of thousands of families are at stake," he added.
[04:31.26]The acting U.S. Customs and Border protection commissioner, Mark Morgan, 
[04:38.29]said the Trump administration is "doing everything they can" 
[04:43.26]to deal with the situation at the U.S. border with Mexico.
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