India, June 26 -- The US Supreme Court has upheld key immigration policies backed by President Donald Trump, paving the way for stricter restrictions on asylum seekers at the US-Mexico border and reinforcing the administration's hardline approach to immigration.

In a 6-3 ruling, the court held that migrants who have not physically entered the United States do not automatically qualify to apply for asylum. The decision allows federal border officials to turn away asylum seekers at ports of entry, reviving the controversial "metering" policy that had previously been discontinued.

The Supreme Court also allowed the Trump administration to revoke Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian nationals, pot...