Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) lamented that judicial injunctions have led to the inability to “deport terrorists from our country.”

Hawley was seemingly referring to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, who stopped the deportation of convicted illegal immigrant men to South Sudan. Instead, Murphy ruled that the eight migrants remain on U.S. territory in Djibouti or be sent back to the U.S. mainland.

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“The way that we’re going to have to do it is we’re going to have to stop these judges from issuing these injunctions, and it’s long past time we can’t let this go on any longer,” Hawley said on Fox News’s Hannity Wednesday. “These individual district court judges are trying to play president, they are trying to play Supreme Court, they are trying to play legislature. They are usurping the will of the people. They don’t have the authority to do this, and it just gets worse and worse and worse. Now we can’t even deport terrorists from our country. It is outrageous, and it has got to stop.”

JUDGES CANNOT HOLD ‘THE ENTIRE COUNTRY HOSTAGE’ THROUGH INJUNCTIONS: JOSH HAWLEY

Hawley has introduced legislation to limit universal injunctions from federal and district judges. His bill is in addition to three other bills regarding injunctions proposed by Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Mike Lee (R-UT), as well as Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA).

As of last month, the Trump administration was the recipient of three-fourths of all universal injunctions issued over the past 25 years. While Trump has only been in office for about five months, judges have already handed down 25 more injunctions. Meanwhile, Biden had only 14 during his presidency.