In a 5-4 ruling on Thursday morning, the high court said that immigration law gives the federal government discretion to end the program officially called Migrant Protection Protocols.
It required asylum seekers, primarily from central and south America, to be detained in the US or sent to Mexico to live in squalid camps for months or years as their claims were considered. The use of the word ‘may’ in the law question ‘makes clear that contiguous-territory return is a tool that the Secretary “has the authority, but not the duty,” to use’, Roberts wrote.
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