For over a year now, President Trump has worked to deliver on the mandate Americans handed him in 2024. The message from voters was unmistakable: secure the border, enforce immigration laws, and put American workers first. Simple enough. Yet a familiar obstacle keeps appearing—unelected federal judges who seem convinced their policy preferences trump the will of the electorate.

You’d think they would have gotten the memo by now. They haven’t. While the President exercises powers explicitly granted by Congress and affirmed by decades of precedent, black-robed activists scour every sentence for technicalities. Anything to grind enforcement to a halt. The latest example demonstrates just how creative these judges can get when they want a particular outcome.

From Breitbart:

A Uruguayan-born judge appointed by President Joe Biden has invented a novel excuse to block President Donald Trump from terminating Biden’s award of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to 350,000 illegal-migrant Haitians.

The text of the TPS quasi-amnesty law bars judges’ intervention in TPS decisions by saying “There is no judicial review of any [TPS] determination.”

But Judge Ana Reyes, an immigrant and a Harvard graduate, claims that she is still allowed to review the process of the TPS determination.

A Creative Interpretation of the Law

Judge Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee and Harvard graduate, has blocked President Trump’s termination of Temporary Protected Status for 350,000 Haitian illegal migrants. Her reasoning requires some impressive mental gymnastics. The kind they apparently teach in Cambridge.

Here’s the thing. The law explicitly states there is “no judicial review of any determination” regarding TPS decisions. Pretty clear, right? Most reasonable people would see that as a closed door. Case dismissed. Go home.

Not Judge Reyes. She decided that while she cannot review a TPS “determination,” she absolutely can review the “process” by which that determination was reached. It’s the sort of distinction that makes sense only to someone trained to find loopholes rather than follow plain language. Armed with this novel theory, she substituted her own policy judgment for the President’s. Just like that.

The Judicial Coup Continues

Presidential advisor Stephen Miller didn’t mince words. “An unelected judge has just ruled that elections, laws and borders don’t exist,” he declared. Blunt. Also accurate.

This fits a pattern Miller has documented for months. He has repeatedly called out what he terms “judicial tyranny” from Democratic-appointed judges who manufacture weak legal arguments to obstruct immigration enforcement. “We are living under judicial tyranny,” he warned last August. “The judicial coup continues,” he said in June 2025. The man has been sounding the alarm. Few listened.

The strategy here is transparent. Every injunction drains White House resources and burns daylight on the President’s term. Even when appellate courts overturn these rulings—and they likely will—the delay itself counts as a win for open-border advocates. Meanwhile, residents of Springfield, Ohio, who voted overwhelmingly for Trump and Vance, get to watch courts dismiss their democratic voice entirely. Democracy for thee, not for me.

Billionaires Over Workers

Follow the money. It never fails.

The lawsuit blocking TPS termination was backed by FWD.us, an organization founded by billionaire investors in 2013. Their explicit goal? Increase the flow of low-wage workers into American communities. The mayor of Springfield celebrated the ruling, praising the “stability” it provides for Haitian workers.

Notice who’s missing from these celebrations? Ordinary Springfield residents are dealing with lower wages, higher housing costs, and strained public services. Local employers love the cheap labor. No surprise there. But when those TPS holders eventually lose work authorization, as one local outlet admitted, those jobs open up for Americans. The same Americans who have watched opportunities vanish in their own hometown.

Judge Reyes acknowledged in her ruling that Haitian TPS holders serve “critical roles” for employers who “actively rely” on them. She called them “far from expendable.” Interesting choice of words. One wonders if she would describe American workers competing for those same positions with equal concern. Doubtful.

Temporary Must Finally Mean Temporary

The administration will appeal. Legal observers expect the Court of Appeals and Supreme Court to reject Judge Reyes’s creative statutory interpretation. The law is clear. The President’s authority is established. The American people have spoken.

Fifteen years ago, an earthquake provided the rationale for temporary protection. That rationale expired long ago. The “temporary” status somehow remained—permanent amnesty wearing a provisional disguise. President Trump was elected to end precisely these bureaucratic fictions.

No amount of judicial activism changes that mandate. The courts may delay. They cannot permanently override the Constitution or the citizens it protects. Temporary will mean temporary. Count on it.

Key Takeaways

• A Biden-appointed judge blocked Trump’s lawful TPS termination using an invented legal loophole.
• Haiti’s “temporary” protected status has lasted over 15 years—temporary in name only.
• Billionaire-backed groups benefit from cheap labor while American workers lose opportunities.
• The ruling will likely be overturned on appeal, but delays serve open-border advocates.

Sources: Breitbart