Last week, the United States Supreme Court authorized the Trump Administration to begin enforcing a new policy along the border with Mexico that forbids asylum applications from people who first traveled through another country on their way to the US and did not seek asylum there first. “This is effectively an asylum ban,” said Avril Benoît, executive director of Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) USA. “Asylum saves lives. It is not a legal loophole or a way to game the immigration system. It exists because for some people, home is a death sentence. This new policy abandons all asylum seekers and forces people back to danger, violence, and death. This is an inhumane choice that plays with people's lives and upends all existing domestic and international refugee laws around the right to seek asylum.” 
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