The Supreme Court debates just how much Trump's judges can sabotage Biden

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Indeed, the Court has maintained for more than a century that law enforcement officials retain this broad discretion even when faced with a statute that uses mandatory language -- such as the statute Kacsmaryk relied on, which provides that certain asylum seekers "shall be detained."
48% : Another statute permits an immigrant to be released on "bond of at least $1,500."Kacsmaryk placed a great deal of weight on a provision of federal law which states that many asylum seekers "shall be detained for further consideration of the application for asylum," and another provision saying that immigrants arriving from Mexico or Canada "may" be returned to that country while their case is pending.
47% : That is, when a person arrives at the Mexican border seeking asylum, the government must either lock that person up, or require them to stay in Mexico until their asylum case is resolved.
44% : But the other is even more basic: whether federal judges who disagree with an administration's policy can keep that policy on ice by constantly erecting new procedural barriers.
43% : The crux of Kacsmaryk's opinion is that federal immigration law only gives "the government two options vis-à-vis aliens seeking asylum: 1) mandatory detention; or 2) return to a contiguous territory."
40% :"Remain in Mexico" is the colloquial name for Trump's Migrant Protection Protocols, which require many immigrants who seek asylum in the United States to stay in Mexico while they wait for a hearing.

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