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The Supreme Court says the U.S. can turn away asylum seekers at the border ⁠31%

By Grady Martin⁠0% Nina Totenberg⁠78%

6/25/2026, 2:57:46 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Negativity Bias, and Self-Serving Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 35.5% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 464 faulty-reasoning hits from 301 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 40.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠31% (15,115 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 69.10% of the article peer group.

The U.S. 
Supreme Court on Thursday handed the Trump administration a tool that could make it far more difficult for asylum seekers to enter the United States. 
Asylum is a form of legal protection available to people fleeing persecution in their home countries if they meet certain criteria. 
Under U.S. law, an asylum seeker who "arrives in" the U.S. is entitled to apply for asylum and generally cannot be removed from the country until their asylum application is processed. 
By a 6-3 vote, the high court ruled that federal law allows the government to stop asylum seekers from physically setting foot in the country, effectively keeping them from applying for asylum. 
The Obama administration was the first to try stemming the flow of asylum seekers that way. 
But the lower courts blocked the policy on grounds that it violated federal law by denying asylum to people who otherwise would have qualified for it, had they been permitted to literally put one foot over the border. 
The Trump administration, however, sought to revive the policy, contending that the lower court's ruling "deprives the Executive Branch of a critical tool for addressing border surges and preventing overcrowding at ports of entry." 
And on Thursday, the Supreme Court agreed. 
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito ruled that because asylum seekers are not in the U.S. when they are turned away at the border, they did not "arrive in" the country. 
Therefore, he continued, the legal protections for asylum seekers have not kicked in. 
Writing for the liberal dissenters, Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted that Border Patrol agents speak with all immigrants at legal entry points and speaking with an agent is effectively the first step in "arriving in" the U.S. 
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301 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers38%attributed speech186writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 31 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 16 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 38 words • 0.0% coverageTrump administration • 34 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 7 words • 0.0% coverageJustice Samuel Alito • 32 words • 0.0% coverageJustice Samuel Alito • 13 words • 0.0% coverageJustice Sonia Sotomayor • 36 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

Trump administration

100%flagged-word coverage
34 attributed words30% of attributed speech71% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Trump administration: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-13.4 ptsWriter: 13.4%Trump administration: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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