WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear a defense by President Donald Trump’s administration of the government’s authority to limit the processing of asylum claims at ports of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The court took up the administration’s appeal of a lower court’s determination that the “metering” policy, under which U.S. immigration officials could stop asylum seekers at the border and decline to process their claims, violated federal law. The policy was rescinded by former President Joe Biden, but Trump’s administration has indicated it would consider resuming it.

The Supreme Court is expected to hear the case and issue a ruling by the end of June.

The metering policy is separate from the sweeping ban on asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border that Trump issu

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