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Washington Continues To Ignore The Voters

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It’s bad enough that 80 percent of Americans support the SAVE Act, and the Republican Congress can’t seem to get it passed, but Congress is not the only group in Washington that is ignoring the will of the voters.

On Tuesday, The Daily Caller reported:

As voters head into the midterm elections, they’ll be looking at how the GOP has delivered on its mandates, especially its clear directive on immigration.

Voters elected President Donald Trump on a platform centered on large-scale removals of illegal immigrants and an end to the Biden-era open border policies. The influx of millions of illegal immigrants placed significant strain on almost every aspect of American lives, from housing to jobs. The electorate rejected this and demanded a fundamental reversal. Instead, Congress and members of the Trump administration consistently push for moderation rather than the much-needed intensity of the original agenda.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Markwayne Mullin has disappointed large segments of the president’s political base. While he publicly affirms support for the voter mandate of mass deportations, his operational decisions reveal a more restrained approach.

The Daily Caller notes:

It’s been two years since Trump came back into office. Members of his own administration have said that at least 20 million illegal immigrants came in under the Biden years. Even if the administration’s claim that 3 million illegal immigrants have been removed either by deportation or self-deportation since 2025 is correct, that number is not nearly enough to make a difference in relieving the hardship Americans face because of their presence.

Additionally, if Republicans fail to maintain control of Congress after the midterm elections, the number of removals will be significantly hindered by an oppositional Democratic Party. Knowing that the base is begging for action, one would assume that elected Republicans would be doing everything in their power to show voters that they are working to deliver on their promise for mass deportations. Instead, Utah Republican Sen. John Curtis, among others, continues to advance legislation that would create legal pathways to residency for illegal immigrants.

Washington truly is a swamp. Unless we manage to remove the rotting bureaucracy, we will never see forward progress on immigration, the budget deficits, or any of the other issues Americans care about.

When Judges Don’t Like The Law

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On Sunday, The Daily Caller posted an article about the influence of the Supreme Court decision regarding federal judges trying to undermine President Trump’s agency. Basically, the Supreme Court said that they were exceeding their authority. Unfortunately, the judges have continued to ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling.

The article reports:

Federal judges are increasingly ruling against the Trump administration’s agenda and in defiance of Supreme Court orders.

The executive branch finds itself fending off endless counter-opinions from federal judges in the courtroom as it continues to implement its hard-line immigration policies. While the Trump administration has scored major victories in the nation’s highest court, including successfully reining in the scope of nationwide injunctions by federal judges, some have chosen to defy Supreme Court rulings.

U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb, an appointee of the Biden administration, blocked the Trump administration on Friday from using a process known as “expedited removal” to quickly remove illegal migrants from the country, according to court documents. The order could, at least for the time being, dramatically curtail the White House’s ability to carry out its deportation agenda.

In a public statement about the ruling, an administration spokesperson slammed the Biden-appointed judge, accusing her of defying a previous Supreme Court ruling.

The article concludes:

The Trump administration, which has grown increasingly frustrated with “activist judges” continually undermining its agenda, scored a major victory in late June when, in a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court dramatically limited lower courts’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions in a decision revolving around Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

“The injunctions before us today reflect a more recent development: district courts asserting the power to prohibit enforcement of a law or policy against anyone,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett stated in the majority opinion. “These injunctions — known as ‘universal injunctions’ — likely exceed the equitable authority that Congress has granted to federal courts. We therefore grant the Government’s applications to partially stay the injunctions entered below.”

The White House referred to the decision as a “big win” in a press statement shortly following the order.

However, in the relatively short amount of time since that Supreme Court ruling, lower courts have repeatedly taken advantage of exceptions in the order that still allow them to issue nationwide injunctions. Lower courts have blocked the president’s asylum ban at the southern border and barred the White House from ending deportation protections for Haitian nationals.

A federal judge in late July barred the Trump administration from ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal migrants, marking the third such nationwide court ruling blocking the order since the Supreme Court ruling.

The President represents the executive branch of our government. He was elected to do a job. The judges are way outside their lane when they try to prevent the President from doing the job he was elected to do.