Levin warns of judicial supremacy, says country is ‘overrun’ by federal courts ‘interfering in immigration’
Late last year then-Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced a new policy designed to stop illegal aliens from gaming the system by using America’s lax asylum laws to disappear into the heartland and out of the reach of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
“Aliens trying to game the system to get into our country illegally will no longer be able to disappear into the United States, where many skip their court dates. Instead, they will wait for an immigration court decision while they are in Mexico,” she said in a statement at the time.
On Monday a federal judge blocked this policy, thus handing the Trump administration yet another defeat. The administration’s efforts to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and deny asylum to seekers who cross into the U.S. illegally have all faced a similar fate.
And last week a federal judge in Washington issued a ruling in which she essentially “said it’s up to the U.S. government to prove why [detained illegal aliens] shouldn’t be released.”
Speaking later Monday evening about the latest ruling, renowned conservative political commentator and former Reagan administration official Mark Levin argued that the country isn’t being overrun with illegal aliens because of bad policy-making but rather because of the courts.
“You want to know why this country is being overrun?” he said. “Because of the federal courts interfering in immigration. They never did that with Obama. … When Arizona said, ‘You know what, we’re going to enforce federal immigration laws, whether Obama does it or not,’ the Supreme Court 5-4, with Anthony Kennedy writing the opinion, said, ‘No, you’re not. The president gets to decide.’”
“So the new president decided, and now these courts say, ‘Actually, the president doesn’t get to decide. We get to decide.’ Every step of the way he’s fought by the courts!”
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He wasn’t wrong. Every single time that President Donald Trump has enacted a policy to curb illegal immigration or halt the growing border crisis, he’s been thwarted by “liberal activist judges” such as San Francisco Judge Richard Seeborg, the Obama appointee responsible for the latest ruling.