US Supreme Court to hear asylum fight involving Nigerian cook

The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to deny asylum to a ​man who was forced to prepare meals for an apparent separatist group in Nigeria, in a case that could expand what officials ‌may deem terrorist activity under American immigration law.

The justices took up the Justice Department's appeal of a lower court's ruling in favour of Nigerian citizen Izuchukwu Ozurumba, who was denied US asylum due to his work cooking for a group known as the Unknown Gunmen that US officials considered to be a terrorist organisation." The case centres on whether Ozurumba's work ​for the group fell under provisions of US immigration law that bar the entry of non-US citizens who have "engaged in a terrorist activity," including actions that provide "material ​support" for such activity or "to a terrorist organisation."