Three Key Takeaways:
- A liberal judge, Paula Xinis, overruled Kristi Noem’s deportation decision, ordering the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a deported criminal linked to MS-13 gang activity, despite opposition from immigration experts.
- The ruling marks another example of judicial interference in Trump’s border security efforts, with the administration planning to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court.
- Activist groups have rallied behind Abrego Garcia, but the Trump administration remains firm in its commitment to enforcing deportations and securing the border.
President Trump promised to deport dangerous criminals.
But the liberal judiciary is fighting him every step of the way.
And an activist judge just overruled Kristi Noem with a shocking deportation decision that undermines border security.
Liberal judge demands return of deported alien
The Obama-appointed judiciary struck again Sunday, throwing a wrench into President Trump’s border security plan.
Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis fired off a 22-page decision about a man named Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia who was deported to El Salvador. She wrote that his detention “appears wholly lawless” – language that mirrors left-wing immigration groups.
The judge ordered Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to haul Abrego Garcia back to America pronto. This order tramples over the decisions made by career immigration officials who’ve spent years tracking gang activity.
“Although the legal basis for the mass removal of hundreds of individuals to El Salvador remains disturbingly unclear, Abrego Garcia’s case is categorically different – there were no legal grounds whatsoever for his arrest, detention, or removal,” Judge Xinis wrote, playing armchair immigration officer from her cushy federal bench.
The Trump administration isn’t taking this lying down. After an appeals court refused to block the judge’s order Monday, officials took their fight straight to the Supreme Court.
Another judicial roadblock to Trump’s border agenda
This ruling marks just the latest case of unelected judges blocking Trump from doing what voters sent him to Washington, D.C. to do.
Abrego Garcia reportedly slipped into America in 2011 as a teenager from El Salvador. His defenders claim he’s just a family man married to a U.S. citizen.
ICE flagged him based on a 2019 incident outside a Maryland Home Depot. His supporters say he was just looking for work, but immigration officials connected him to MS-13 gang activity.
The trained professionals at ICE made the call to deport him based on their investigation – the same experts who’ve spent careers identifying gang members and criminals hiding in American communities.
On March 12, authorities picked up Abrego Garcia in Baltimore. He was sent to El Salvador’s CECOT prison – a facility built specifically for dangerous gang members.
Trump administration stands firm against judicial overreach
While The Atlantic ran a sob story claiming some “administrative error,” the White House isn’t backing down.
Attorney General Pam Bondi slapped down critics during her Fox News Sunday appearance.
“We have to rely on what ICE says,” Bondi said. “We have to rely on what Homeland Security says. They’re our clients, and I firmly believe in the work they are doing, and we’re going to make America safe again. That was President Trump’s directive to all of us.”
The Justice Department even suspended a government lawyer who didn’t fight hard enough against this judicial activism – showing this administration means business when it comes to enforcing immigration law.
Supreme Court battle looms
The appeals court sided with the liberal judge Monday, refusing the DOJ’s request to put her order on hold.
Now the case heads to the Supreme Court, where the Trump administration hopes to finally get some adult supervision over these rogue lower court judges.
This fight highlights the eternal struggle between Trump’s mandate to secure the border and liberal judges who seem determined to keep the floodgates open.
Immigration activist groups wasted no time parading Abrego Garcia’s wife before news cameras, pushing the same tired talking points about “families being separated.”
The pattern is painfully familiar – the same crew of activist judges who tried to handcuff Trump during his first term are already sharpening their pencils to obstruct his second term.
Meanwhile, Secretary Noem and the Trump administration keep pushing forward with the deportation program Americans voted for in November.
As the case winds through the courts, the American people once again get a front-row seat to the judicial obstruction that keeps our border wide open despite their votes for change.
