The U.S. Supreme Court voted 6-3 on June 25 to permit the Trump administration to enforce a policy named 'metering' that bars asylum seekers from entering the United States before reaching a port of entry.

Immigration law provides that individuals who arrive in the United States may seek asylum, and the case turned on the interpretation of the phrase 'arrive in'.

Chief Justice Samuel Alito wrote that ordinary usage of the phrase does not require physical entry before the location is considered reached, while Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented, arguing that the word must be read in statutory context.

The majority included Justices Alito, John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett; the dissent was joined by Justices Elena Kagan, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor.

Human rights organizations said the ruling effectively undermines statutory protections that require officials to examine asylum seekers at ports of entry and to refrain from returning them to dangerous conditions.

The decision follows separate Supreme Court actions on June 24 that allowed the administration to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian residents and to strike down a Hawaii gun restriction.

Other developments reported include a request for $87.6 billion in congressional funding for the administration’s foreign policy initiatives, Senate Republicans’ rejection of a war powers resolution after pressure from the president, Governor Ron DeSantis’ announcement of the removal of 21,000 individuals from a detention facility in the Everglades, and a Pentagon decision to reinstate flu vaccinations for military recruits amid a flu outbreak.

Senate Oregon Senator Ron Wyden accused the Department of Health and Human Services of preparing an unprecedented legal framework to deport more than 500 unaccompanied migrant children in its custody.

California voters will decide in November whether billionaires will face a one-time 5 percent tax, after a deadline for withdrawing the ballot measure passed on Thursday.