The wave of new immigrants arriving at the U.S. border poses a national security problem, and President Donald Trump has the right to fight it, just as he fought and won his battle for a travel ban, Sebastian Gorka, a former deputy assistant to the president, said Wednesday.
"For those liberals who say we have an individual in the White House with dictatorial propensities, it's absolutely the opposite," Gorka, now a senior national security strategist for Fox News, told "Fox & Friends."
"We went through the whole court system, through the appeal system, right up to the Supreme Court."
And in the end, the courts ruled Trump gets the final decision.
"In the United States, one person gets to decide on who comes in to the nation and whether they are a threat to national security, and it's not the legislature," Gorka said. "It's not the court, and it's definitely not somebody in San Francisco who belongs to the 9th 'Circus' Court."
Trump on Tuesday slammed the court, located in the Northern District of California, which issued a temporary order blocking his order barring migrants who come into the United States illegally from seeking asylum. The court has issued several other rulings blocking Trump's orders since he took office.
Also, he said, many of those trying to come into the United States do not qualify for asylum.
"Asylum is if you are being persecuted for political reasons or for other reasons," Gorka said. "Not if you want a job. That is very, very clear."
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