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President Donald Trump’s administration stunned the country this spring by invoking the rarely used Alien Enemies Act to accelerate deportations of suspected gang members — a move Democrats rushed to denounce as authoritarian even as federal courts scrambled to respond. The action targeted alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and authorized expedited removal of noncitizens the administration labeled a national-security threat.
Flights left the United States carrying scores of detainees to El Salvador, where the men were placed in the CECOT facility under an arrangement Washington hailed as taking dangerous criminals off our streets. White House spokespeople celebrated the removals as victories for public safety, while critics warned of due-process violations and human-rights consequences.
The legal fight moved through the courts at breakneck speed, with district judges issuing temporary blocks and the Supreme Court stepping in to limit removals until detainees could contest their treatment — a chaotic scene that only underscores how warped our immigration debate has become. The judiciary rightly insisted on procedural protections even as the administration asserted sweeping national-security prerogatives.
Let’s be blunt: this isn’t the first time Democrats have backed tough deportation policies when it suited political reality. Removal totals in the last decade under Democratic leadership were historically high, and Washington has long oscillated between enforcement and open-borders posturing depending on who’s in power. The public remembers that enforcement wasn’t always called “fascism” when Democrats were overseeing removals.
Conservative Americans should demand consistency: if removing criminal bad actors is acceptable when Democrats do it, it is acceptable now when the administration keeps its oath to protect Americans. The real question is whether our leaders will enforce the law fairly and prioritize American security over virtue-signaling and soft-on-crime rhetoric. No one who values law and order should sympathize with people who defend open borders while pretending to be shocked when the law is actually used.
This fight is about more than a court ruling or a flight manifest; it’s about who gets to decide who stays and who goes in our country. Patriots know that sovereignty means enforcing borders and deporting dangerous criminals, not hollow lectures from coastal elites who reverse positions whenever the political wind changes. The American people deserve leaders who will keep neighborhoods safe and stop pretending hypocrisy is leadership.
