Separation from Reality: President Trump yesterday trotted out families of people murdered and killed by illegal immigrants in an effort to draw sympathy away from the thousands of children separated from parents who entered the country illegally .

“They are not separated for a day or two days, they are  permanently separated,” he said with a row of people behind him. He calls them “angel families.”

Trump said, “No major networks send cameras to their homes or display the images of their incredible loved ones.” He went on, “These are the stories that Democrats and people that are weak on immigration” do not want to hear.

While the President warns that illegal immigrants bring a wave of crime, statistics show that immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than native-born Americans.

While Trump showboats, his administration is wrestling with how to carry out the President’s order reversing policy and keeping families together after entering the country illegally. The NY Times reports that the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection wants to know how he’s supposed to detain families indefinitely when the law prohibits holding children and families together for longer than 20 days.

Border Protection is also telling Trump that the immigration system doesn’t have the capacity to prosecute everyone arrested under his “zero tolerance policy.”

The President said in a tweet yesterday that the answer to all this is to elect Republicans. “We must maintain a Strong Southern Border,” he said. “We cannot allow our Country to be overrun by illegal immigrants as the Democrats tell their phony stories of sadness and grief, hoping it will help them in the elections.”

Change of Will: Conservative columnist George Will, no friend of Democrats or liberals of any kind, published an opinion in The Washington Post saying that the only way to cure his party that’s been taken over by Donald Trump is to vote for Democrats this fall.

He said, “The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants (are) reduced to minorities.”

Describing the Republican majority as ineffective and cowed by a confused and incompetent president, Will said unemployment would be the best tonic for his Republican brethren. “They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.”

Also in the Post, South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford, who just lost in his party’s primary, says, “I wasn’t Trump enough in the age of Trump — and so indeed I lost.”

Sanford has been upfront about disagreeing with Trump and says, “We should all be alarmed when dissenting voices are quashed. President Trump is not the first executive to want compliance from a legislative body, but he has taken it to a new level. This is more than a problem; it’s a challenge to one of the most basic of American tenets — that we can agree to disagree.”

Don’t Hang Up: The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the police need a warrant to access the location data your cellphone company collects as you travel about.

The cops have argued that because cellphone users voluntarily share their information with a third party, their phone company, then they don’t need a warrant.

Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority decision that cellphone location information is a “near perfect” tool for government surveillance, similar to an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet.

Nation: The human backup driver in a self-driving Uber SUV was streaming the television show “The Voice” on her phone just before hitting and killing a pedestrian in suburban Phoenix, according to a police report. The driver, Elaine Herzberg, was watching the show for 43 minutes before the accident, they said. — A 10-foot steel sculpture of a curled “heroin” spoon was placed outside the headquarters of Purdue Pharma in Stamford, Conn. They make the painkiller OxyContin, which plays a big part in the national opioid addiction crisis. The spoon was made by an artists who focuses on the drug crisis.

National Tragedy and Disaster: A rack of about 9,000 bourbon barrels containing nearly half a million gallons of amber elixir collapsed in Bardstown, Ky., sending a stream of bourbon downhill. The incident occurred at a Barton Brands facility, which is owned by Sazerac. The EPA responded to see whether the bourbon polluted the local groundwater, which is just foolishness. Anyone with sense knows that it’s water that pollutes bourbon.

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