While Trump is making big strides to fix our broken immigration system, Democrat-appointed federal judges in California have continued to drive the wrong way in response. San Francisco Federal Judge William Orrick recently ordered Trump not to withhold funds from sanctuary cities. You recall on Trump’s first day he signed an Executive Order commanding his incoming Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to stop the flow of federal taxpayer funds to sanctuary cities that defy federal law by harboring illegal aliens. The unlawfulness of these cities results in heinous crimes against innocent Americans.
Judge Orrick brazenly issued an injunction against Trump to keep the gravy train flowing to many cities that sued in his courtroom, including faraway Santa Fe, New Mexico. Numerous cities picked this San Francisco venue to sue because its judicial bench is composed nearly entirely of Democrat appointees. However, Judge Orrick’s injunction is far from safe even in the Ninth Circuit, where the U.S. Court of Appeals has been willing to rein in unfounded anti-Trump activity.
In that case, Democrat-appointed Judge Jamal Whitehead in Seattle blocked Trump’s suspension of the refugee program with a nationwide injunction in February. But on appeal to the Ninth Circuit, a 2-1 Democrat majority stayed most of that, allowing Trump’s suspension to go into effect against all refugees who did not already have confirmed travel tickets by January 20.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled with good precedent in the past on this, responding to a lawsuit filed in Democrat-dominated Hawaii that Trump was, in fact, able to ban travel from specific countries during his first term. The High Court confirmed then that the president has broad authority over matters related to foreign policy and national security, in which courts should rarely interfere.
Funny enough, though, despite the liberals’ attempts to tell us “nothing could be done,” the crisis at our southern border evaporated almost immediately after Trump began issue Executive Orders. All we needed was a president to wield his power correctly.
This post originally appeared at https://phyllisschlafly.com/constitution/the-left-works-to-prolong-immigration-crisis/