( February 11, 2026, 1:52 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal government parties who are arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that individuals stopped in Mexico before crossing into the United States can’t apply for asylum under 8 U.S. Code Section 1158(a)(1) or be inspected by immigration officers under 8 U.S. Code Section 1225(a) are ignoring “Congress’s use of the present tense—as well as the present progressive ‘arriving’ in nearby provisions,” a migrant support group and others argue in their Feb. 10 respondent brief; the federal government is challenging a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that partially upheld a permanent injunction in a class case over a now-rescinded border metering policy....