Urias-Orellana v. Bondi is not a case name that history will remember in the way it does Roe v. Wade or Obergefell v. Hodges. The question presented to the Supreme Court is narrow and legalistic, but the facts demonstrate just how broken our asylum system is.

On or about June 28, 2021, Douglas Humberto Urias-Orellana, his wife, Sayra Iliana Gamez-Mejia, and their child were arrested by Border Patrol after illegally crossing the southern border. They were promptly processed and released by the Biden administration before moving to Boston, where they asserted asylum as a defense to deportation, as many illegal immigrants do.

Neither Urias-Orellana nor Gamez-Mejia is a member of any race, religion, or nationality persecuted in their native El Salvador, nor do they hold any political opinions that make them targets of the government or any other violent group. Urias-Orellana’s half-brother, Juan, however, got into an argument with a drug-lord hitman about a romantic........

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