The U.S. Supreme court has ruled that citizens don’t have a constitutional right to bring their noncitizen spouses into the U.S.

According to Washington Times, the court, in a 6-3 ruling on June 21, 2024, reaffirmed Congress’s broad power to set immigration limits & the executive branch’s role in carrying out those orders in deciding who can come.

The justices had previously ruled that a would-be migrant lacks the constitutional right to challenge those decisions, & it now ruled that U.S. citizens don’t have the right, either.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett, writing for the majority, said “we hold that a citizen does not have a fundamental liberty interest in her noncitizen spouse being admitted to the country.”

The case was brought by Sandra Munoz, a U.S. citizen who argued she had a right to sue to get her husband, Luis Ascencio-Cordero, a citizen of El Salvador, into the U.S.

The state department denied him a visa because it suspected he had ties to the vi@l£nt gang Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13.