00:00Thursday was a busy, busy, busy day at the Supreme Court, with the justices handing the
00:04Trump administration a series of major wins on immigration while also striking down a Hawaii
00:09gun law. First, the high court ruled that the administration can end temporary protected
00:14status for more than 350,000 Haitians and over 6,000 Syrians, clearing the way for their
00:20deportation. The justices also upheld the administration's ability to turn away migrants
00:24at the U.S.-Mexico border before they apply for asylum, reviving the controversial so-called
00:30metering policy. In another 6-3 decision, the court struck down Hawaii's vampire rule,
00:36which required gun owners to get express permission before carrying firearms into private property open
00:41to the public. So think hotels or stores. Justice Samuel Alito wrote that the Second Amendment,
00:47quote, cannot give way to the spirit of aloha. But the legal fireworks weren't limited to the
00:51written opinions. Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor took the rare step of reading her 35-page dissent
00:58from the bench in the immigration asylum case, warning that, quote, more people will die as a
01:03result of the court's decision. When she finished, a visibly frustrated Justice Alito fired back, saying
01:09there's much I would have added. He's basically saying if he'd have known that she planned to read
01:14the entire dissent, he would have been ready with a retort. As the court's term winds down, Thursday
01:19really served as a reminder that some of the biggest battles aren't just between the justices
01:23and the law. They're between the justices themselves. Now, we're still waiting on some
01:27very critical decisions from the high court. The biggest is the issue of birthright citizenship.
01:32Traditionally, the court issues all of its decisions by the end of June, so the clock is ticking.
01:38Venezuela has been rocked by its biggest and strongest earthquakes in more than a century,
01:43with two powerful quakes striking less than a minute apart, leaving a trail of devastation across
01:49the country. The death toll continues to climb. Hundreds have been injured, and rescue crews are
01:54still searching through the rubble. Officials warn the full scale of the disaster may not be known for
01:59days. For more on the devastation, the massive rescue effort, and how the U.S. is responding,
02:04let's bring in the New York Post's Deputy Managing Editor Michael Zenni.
02:07This is really, it's hard to overstate how terrible this looks right now in Venezuela.
02:12As with a lot of natural disasters in countries that especially have poor infrastructure, we really
02:22do not yet know the full extent of the damage. These earthquakes happen quite far away from
02:30Caracas. We've seen a lot of devastation there in the capital, but we're hearing that it's much worse
02:38farther away, closer to the epicenter. This is especially exacerbated by the decades of,
02:48the decades of hollowing out of public resources, emergency response, as the state basically squandered
02:58money during the socialist regime of Maduro. And then obviously the Trump administration snatched him
03:06in a daring raid earlier this year. And President Trump says that, you know, the U.S. more or less
03:15oversees the country. So the U.S. has promised a significant amount of aid in the aftermath of these
03:26earthquakes. We can tell you for starters that our two, America's two most trained search and
03:36rescue units, which are called USAO-01 and USAO-02 based in Virginia and in Los Angeles are prepping
03:46to fly out shortly to deploy over there with rescue equipment and also sniffer dogs to try to find people
03:57buried under the rubble and rescue them. The Secretary of State has also spoken out. Marco Rubio
04:04said that has has basically pledged a whole of government effort to help Venezuela recover from
04:12this this devastation. But it's going to be some time before we have any clear indication of just
04:20how bad it is. The Department of Homeland Security is blaming Virginia's sanctuary style policies after an
04:26illegal immigrant was charged with exposing himself to one woman and then allegedly trying to abduct
04:31another at a northern Virginia park. DHS says Moises Domingo Rico Rosales was arrested on felony drug
04:37trafficking charges in Fairfax County last year, but was released after local officials did not honor
04:43an ICE detainer. He's now charged with abduction with intent to defile and indecent exposure, while ICE is
04:48again seeking to take him into federal custody. Fairfax County officials, however, dispute DHS's account,
04:55saying ICE never provided a judicial warrant and that the sheriff's office doesn't hold inmates past their
05:00release date without one. Now the case comes as Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen told
05:04lawmakers that the Trump administration is building an automated system to re-vet people who received
05:09asylum, visas or DACA status during the Biden administration. We're having to go back through
05:14and re-vet a lot of people that was given asylum or given visas underneath the previous administration
05:19because they didn't do any checks. But because we're going through there and taking a deeper look at
05:24all this, we've been able to arrest over 1,900 known terrorists that were given status underneath the
05:33Biden administration inside the United States. Mullen said the administration believes the previous
05:38system didn't adequately screen applicants and that this new automated process is needed because
05:44reviewing cases one by one is just not practical. For more on these stories and everything else you could
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