Supreme Court to hear Trump immigration cases on border wall, asylum

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will take up two key cases involving President Trump’s get-tough immigration policy, granting hearings on his border wall construction project and his crackdown on bogus asylum claims.

The asylum policy, officially known as the Migrant Protection Protocols and more commonly called the “Remain in Mexico” policy, makes people who show up at the border from Central America and further afield return to Mexico to wait while their cases proceed in the U.S.

That eliminated the incentive to make bogus asylum claims, because it denied...