In the thick of the Biden administration-sponsored invasion of millions of illegal aliens, two Republican governors hit self-righteous, sanctuary leftists where they lived. 

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “triggered outrage among” Democrats in September 2022 when they began busing and flying “undocumented migrants” to Democrat-controlled cities. Among the destinations was Martha’s Vineyard — the posh playground of liberal elites including Barack and Michelle Obama — and outside the residence of then-Vice President Kamala Harris. The same liberals that seemed to lose little sleep over coyotes trafficking in human beings suddenly accused the governors of “engaging in human trafficking and treating migrants like ‘human cargo’ to score political points,” as Democratic Party organ the Texas Tribune put it. 

The point was indeed political: Illegal immigrant-welcoming Democrats and the cities they control should be burdening more of the “sanctuary.” 

“We did [send them],” Abbott told KFYO, a radio station in Lubbock, after a bus carrying about illegals showed up at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., where Harris and Second Dude Doug Emhoff freeloaded at the time.

“[Harris] is the border czar, and we felt that if she won’t come down to see the border, if President [Joe] Biden will not come down and see the border, we will make sure they see it firsthand,” Abbott said. His comments followed on the heels of the infamous border czar’s appearance on NBC’s Meet the Press in which she described the Southern Border as “secure.” 

Cleaning Up the Mess

Texas was the doorstep of the invasion. In 2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents recorded 2,378,940 encounters with illegal immigrants at the Southern Border, according to the CBP. Over President Joe Biden’s four years in office, Border Patrol agents would deal with at least 8.72 million illegal immigrants in the southern sector alone, many of them caught and released into the United States. 

“It is clear that the Biden-Harris administration has intentionally used unlawful mass-parole schemes to shift hundreds of thousands of inadmissible aliens to ports of entry for release into the interior, often with little or no vetting,” according to the House Committee on Homeland Security’s “Startling Stats” report.  

Nearly three years after the Republican governors first started giving hundreds of illegal immigrants one-way tickets to Democrat sanctuary, President Donald Trump is cleaning up the millions-fold mess left by his predecessor. But rogue federal judges have attempted to stop the Trump administration at every turn, even ignoring a U.S. Supreme Court order in the process. 

‘Unprecedented Defiance’

In April, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts issued an order blocking the Trump administration from deporting illegal immigrants to “third countries” (places other than the U.S. or the alien’s place of origin) without giving them time to challenge their removal. On Monday, the Supreme Court stayed Murphy’s order, allowing the deportations to go forward for now. 

The Biden-nominated judge followed up Monday evening by claiming that an order he issued last month aimed at blocking the administration’s attempt to deport eight illegal immigrants with violent criminal records was not affected by the Supreme Court’s stay. Au contraire, mon frère, argued U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer in filings Tuesday urging the high court to deal with Murphy’s “unprecedented defiance.” Sauer asserts the Supreme Court’s stay also covered Murphy’s May order accusing the administration of violating his original injunction. 

Murphy, like the other rogue judges who have attempted to stop the executive branch from carrying out the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws (as the Second Branch is empowered to do), demand the kind of due process rights for illegal immigrants reserved for criminal proceedings. They have no such rights. 

“The administrative immigration judges are Justice Department employees in the executive branch; they are not federal judges under the Article III Judiciary of the U.S. Constitution,” wrote Lora Ries, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, in a commentary published last month. “That means deportable aliens in deportation proceedings do not have the same rights as a person in a criminal trial, such as being innocent until proven guilty, the right to a taxpayer funded public defendant, etc. Removing a deportable alien is not a criminal sentence.”

‘Barbaric Criminal Illegal Criminals’

Murphy wants to make sure the eight men the Trump administration had planned to deport to South Sudan but ended up at a military base in Djibouti are afforded the full rights of a citizen. In fact, the activist judge wants to give the convicted criminals more rights than the people they robbed, raped and murdered were afforded. 

The Department of Homeland Security last month released the records of the “barbaric criminal illegal criminals” that had final orders for removal. Many of those orders have been in effect for decades. The lineup, according to DHS, includes: 

Nyo Myint, an illegal from Burma and registered sex offender. He was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting; sentenced to 12 years confinement. Myint is also charged with aggravated assault-nonfamily strongarm. 

Enrique Arias-Hierro, from Cuba, His criminal history includes convictions for homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of official, kidnapping, robbery strong arm.

Tuan Thanh Phan, from Vietnam, was convicted of first-degree murder and second-degree assault. He was sentenced to 22 years confinement. Prior to that, he was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon on a school facility as a juvenile in 1999.

Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, from Cuba, has been convicted of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon, battery and larceny, cocaine possession and trafficking.

Judge for Yourself

Kyaw Mya, an “Iowa man,” as described by USA Today, “lived at various times in Des Moines and Marshalltown over a span of at least 14 years.” The Burma native was convicted of lascivious acts with a child — victim less than 12 years of age, according to the DHS list of criminal records. He was sentenced to 10 years confinement, paroled after 4 years. A Marshalltown police investigator also testified “that Mya had previously choked his wife and beaten his sons,” according to the publication. The illegal immigrant denied the charges and claimed he had been forced to confess to a crime he did not commit. 

In his order, Murphy said DHS had to give the illegal immigrants “clear information about where they were going and give them time to express any concerns they might have.” He’s worried they could get hurt where they are or in South Sudan.

Again, the convicts’ victims did not have the same luxury of time. 

Perhaps it’s time to bring back the Abbott-DeSantis travel plan. Trump likes a good deal. How about this one: The administration agrees to bring back the violent criminals only if Murphy agrees to put them up at his house while the illegal immigrants receive “time enough to express any concerns.” Maybe Enrique Arias-Hierro could bunk with the Murphy family. I’m sure the illegal immigrant wouldn’t reoffend and violate the Boston judge’s due process rights. 

I’m also certain Murphy might have a few concerns with that plan.