Obama deported 400,000 illegal immigrants per year when he was in office. No one said a word. But now, to rid the U.S. of the enormous Biden-era 21 million illegal aliens at a mere 400,000 per year, it will take 52.5 years. That means to complete deportation, we will need 13 more consecutive Trump presidential terms.
Creatively, President Trump is considering reopening Alcatraz, while the courts are struggling to remember the Supreme Court and the Constitution have already ruled and answered illegal immigration questions.
The first three articles of the Constitution distributed distinct governmental powers amongst three branches, with Article 4 Section 4 stating this:
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
This clearly puts the power of protecting the United States against “invasion” firmly in the hands of the Legislative and Executive Branches of the government and NOT the Judicial branch. In fact, the 1849 Supreme Court ruling of Luther v. Borden, “Chief Justice Roger Taney held that the political branches of government, and not the federal courts, should decide such questions” pertaining to the application of Article 4 Section 4.
This means that justices encroaching on the power of the Executive Branch are violating the Separation of Powers by inhibiting the president from executing his duty towards protecting the United States against invasion.
(Note: Johnson’s 1785 English dictionary was widely available as the Constitution was drafted and its primary definition of the word “invasion” is, “hostile entrance upon the rights or possessions of another; hostile encroachment.” This shows us the Founders’ understanding of the definition of the word “invasion.”)
A friend of our family’s relatives in Texas, went to supper and came home to find a group of illegal aliens in their home, using their bathroom, wearing their clothes and pretending not to speak any English. Not being willing to leave, this family had to call the police to have the illegal aliens forcefully ejected from the home, while still wearing the stolen clothes. The next morning the father came out to go to work, only to find illegal aliens sleeping in the bed of his truck. Again, the police had to be called to eject these illegal immigrants. Is this “invasion”? Yes, the 1785 definition of “invasion” is “hostile entrance upon the rights or possessions of another; hostile encroachment.”
Consider all the illegal alien criminal gang members in the United States who have committed heinous crimes like rape, murder, sexual assault of children, lewd acts in front of children, distribution of fentanyl, and illegal gun-running. Isn’t this “hostile encroachment” falling under the definition of “invasion”?