Ben Shapiro

It doesn't matter whether you agree with what the Trump administration actually did at the U.S.

Mexico border or with Haitian migrants.

Again, it is not the job of the Supreme Court to agree or disagree with such action.

The question is, under our Constitution, who has the authority to do what?

And the Supreme Court said that the Trump administration acted within its legally defined purview and that it could not simply overrule the Trump administration based on not liking it or liking it or whatever.

If you don't like the policy, in other words, elect a different Congress or a different president.

Again, that's the job of the Supreme Court now to the content of these decisions.

Now, the fact that these things even had to be decided at the Supreme Court level, all of this turned into a Supreme Court case because of a long history of bad legislation and then presidents taking advantage of bad legislation, which, by the way, is the story of congressional presidential relations.

basically since Woodrow Wilson.

Congress passing vague laws, presidents taking advantage of that in order to maximize their own power, and all the rest.

So let's start with the first decision.

It was called Mullen versus Otrolado.

So first, the background on this decision.

So

Back in 2016, the Obama administration set up a process called metering.

There was heavy migration at the southern border, as you recall.

And until 2016, if you were a non-citizen and you were seeking asylum at a port of entry on the U.S.-Mexico border, you would cross into U.S.

soil and then wait in line for inspection.

And at that point, we had a legal duty to listen to you.

And most people would come and they would claim asylum.