When President Donald Trump announced his first campaign for the presidency nearly ten years ago, he made it clear that his priority was to get control of the border, to deport individuals who had entered the country unlawfully, and to overturn the immigration policies of the Bush and Obama Administrations. Fast forward to 2025, and it's not the voters or the American people that are preventing him from enacting his promised immigration policy, but the judiciary.

Federal judges are blocking his agenda to the point where the United States Supreme Court, the highest judicial body in the country, is being repeatedly asked to intervene, with only moderate success. The Court said Trump must "facilitate" the return of an MS-13 gang member who was deported under an existing deportation order and blocked Trump from deporting more than 50 Tren de Aragua members from a Texas detention facility.

Through methods such as the Alien Enemies Act, Trump's Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, and Department of Justice have all worked together in attempting to conduct the most expansive deportation effort of illegal immigrants in American history. While it's been established, at multiple points, that Trump's Administration has plenty of legal leeway to implement these policies, judicial overreach advocates have been putting the breaks this agenda.

But it's not just Trump's agenda that's being blocked, but what the American people want.

That doesn't matter to judges like Wisconsin's Judge Hannah Dugan, who saw her ability to serve at the bench temporarily suspended after she facilitated the escape of an illegal immigrant with an ICE detainer from her courtroom. Dugan stood up for an illegal immigrant rather than US citizens. The man she ran cover for was facing domestic violence charges during a pre-trial hearing in her courtroom when she showed him and his lawyer out a side door.

A federal judge in the case of Mahmoud Khalil, a student agitator, has been taken up by federal court after a judge decided he had the right to bypass immigration court, where immigration cases are meant to be heard.

The Trump Administration has proactively ensured that its immigration policies take center stage in the executive branch. This commitment, however, does not shield them from the judicial overreach that Trump himself has faced over the last four years. These judges believe they are standing on their power, whether they have the power by law or not. Ironically, those who were the target of the President's executive actions are now desperate to stop his agenda at all costs. 

That was made evident this week, as the Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court to intervene yet again after a federal judge determined that they were not permitted to cancel the temporary protected status for over 300,000 Venezuelans who came in under the Biden administration. These migrants, most of whom entered the US illegally and were paroled into the United States as Biden expanded the TPS program, were given an initial two years of semi-legal status.

This is another in a growing number of cases where a federal judge has denied the will of the American people in refusing to allow the executive branch to engage in deportations of those who entered the US in violation of federal law. For instance, in the case of the so-called Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was already under an order of deportation, Judge James Boasberg ruled that he was unlawfully deported. He also demanded that a plane load of illegal immigrants be turned around and sent back to the US despite those on the flight already being under deportation orders.

While Biden openly flouted immigration laws, as did his Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, Trump has promised the American people to remove illegal immigrant criminals from the United States. Judges are blocking these deportations yet they did nothing to stop them under the Biden administration, despite states bringing cases against that regime for the very purpose of stopping the border crisis.

The judges who have been standing in the way, from those who refuse to allow TPS to be canceled, or to enable mass deportations, or who demand that MS-13 gang members be returned to American soil, have ruled on due process as well as other, more personal reasons. California Judge Edward Chen said that the Department of Homeland Security's canceling TPS for 350,000 Venezuelans was based on "generalized false stereotypes." Chen said: "Generalization of criminality to the Venezuelan TPS population as a whole is baseless and smacks of racism predicated on generalized false stereotypes." 

Boston Judge Indira Talwani detailed her concerns over the remittances sent by those TPS persons to their families back home. "Here," reads the ruling, mentioning the case of Ana Doe. "She has been working for a company that supplies personal protective equipment. She uses her salary here to provide for her family and for her mother, who lives in Nicaragua."

In many cases, the Biden administration allowed deportation orders to go unenforced. Authorities in the Biden White House were comfortable allowing many different, semi-legal statuses under which illegal immigrants in the US would stay in the country. This was part of their plan to create pathways to citizenship for every one of the 10 million illegal immigrants they brought into the country. Dems have a variety of reasons for wanting that, from wanting illegal immigrants to work low-paying jobs they say Americans won't do, or replacing a declining population, as Chuck Schumer said in September 2024.

The American people brought Trump back into office to fix the immigration and border crisis that Biden created after Trump fixed it the first time. Now, the judiciary is saying "no" to Trump and the American people, a decision that has immediate and profound implications for the safety and security of our nation.

Americans did not elect these judges to reform our immigration system, and they certainly did not elect them to prevent reform from taking place. They must allow the President and his cabinet to justly deport criminal illegal immigrants who are hurting United States citizens and let him do what he was elected to do.