Trump won two immigration battles, but expect the fight to continue

Donald Trump.
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President Trump had an exciting Friday as he basked in the glow of two seemingly major victories concerning immigration.

First, he announced that the U.S. had reached a "safe third country" agreement with Guatemala, requiring migrants — namely from Honduras and El Salvador — to seek asylum there rather than the U.S. The president then learned of the Supreme Court's split decision, in which conservative justices held the majority, overturning a lower court ruling that barred the government from diverting $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build a portion of a wall at the southern border.

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.