Trump Cleared to Enact Quick Deportations in High Court Win (4)

A divided U.S. Supreme Court bolstered the government’s ability to quickly deport people who enter the country without documentation, siding with President Donald Trump’s administration and refusing to give asylum seekers a broad right to make their case to a federal judge.

Ruling against a Sri Lankan man arrested near the Mexican border, the justices said the U.S. Constitution doesn’t give asylum seekers the right to request a court order letting them stay in the country. The vote was 7-2, though only the court’s five conservative justices joined the most sweeping reasoning.

The ruling directly affects people who fail ...