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There’s real progress being made on one of the most important issues President Trump ran on — and that’s the removal of unwanted refugees and the restoration of honest immigration policy.
Ten days after taking office, President Trump signed Executive Order 14163, realigning the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program. His administration has won two major court victories thus far in the fight to regain our sovereignty. Under Biden, more than 100,000 so-called refugees were brought in during fiscal year 2024 alone — the highest level in thirty years. Trump has moved to revoke the Temporary Protected Status of Haitian and Syrian communities who were admitted under the fiction of political persecution.
The Haitian community, roughly 350,000 people who settled largely in Springfield and Columbus, Ohio, became a central issue in the 2024 campaign. As for the Syrians, the entire premise for their refugee status evaporated when the Assad regime fell in December 2024, while Biden was still in office. The justification is gone. It’s time for them to go home.
Liberal judges in New York, Seattle, and Washington D.C. have done their best to block these removals, but Trump’s Solicitor General John Sauer took the fight to the Supreme Court, and the Court largely granted the requested relief — scheduling oral arguments for late April and signaling a full ruling by end of June. Meanwhile, the Ninth Circuit ruled directly in Trump’s favor in a separate case, recognizing the broad authority Congress granted the President to halt this misguided program.
There’s more good news. The First Circuit ruled, with both a Republican and Democrat-appointed judge in agreement, that Trump may deport illegal aliens to third countries when their home nations refuse to take them back. As the Department of Homeland Security put it, if activist judges had their way, convicted murderers, child rapists, and drug traffickers whose own countries won’t accept them would be walking free on American streets.
I should also note that by January of this year 2.2 million people had already self-deported through a voluntary program. Democrats are furious, and that tells you everything. They view illegal aliens as their future voters. We may be in the last window of opportunity to fix our broken immigration system, while Republicans control all branches of government.
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