The media and the Democrats rip President Trump on illegal immigration.

An NBA player talks about his quite privilege, and Bernie Sanders acts like a frontrunner.

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Man, it is such a disparate news cycle. I mean, it's just all over the place.

And we'll get to all of the various headlines.

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Okay, so the big story today is that President Trump continues to be stymied on his

immigration plans.

A federal court has now blocked the Trump administration from forcing asylum seekers to remain in Mexico while awaiting court hearings. Now, this is not really within the purview of the federal courts. The president does have enormous power over border policy. This is stuff within the executive branch's purview. This is really not stuff within the judicial branches purview. When it comes to the border, that is a foreign policy matter, and that means that the president does have exorbitant

and near-plenary power over what to do with America's border situation. And the court doesn't

just get to grant rights to people who are coming across the border without the president

enforcing those rights. Nonetheless, a federal judge, again,

we have a bunch of rogue courts across the country who are slapping national injunctions on the federal

government, which really is an act of judicial supremacy, not judicial review. There's a difference.

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