Of all the open border actions carried out by Joe Biden during his four-year term in office, the most damaging might by the mass amnesty he granted to more than 530,000 foreign nationals through the Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan (CHNV) parole program. While the program was ultimately halted due to fraud and canceled by the Trump administration, a federal judge has now blocked Trump's move to revoke the "temporary protected status" of those 530,000 brought in under the program. The judge's ruling states that the administration must evaluate each migrant on a case-by-case basis before revoking their legal status. Doing that would take several years or even decades.
"The judge is wrong," says Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) in an interview with Fox News. "He or she obviously doesn't know a law book from a J.Crew catalog. I believe this judge issued a national injunction...in my judgment those are illegal."
The Trump administration will appeal the ruling, but critics say it demonstrates how Biden's border crisis was engineered to flood the system and make it difficult or impossible for Trump to completely fix. Trump has been able to secure the border and effectively stop new crossings, while carrying out deportations of hundreds of known violent criminal illegals. But that still leaves millions who were brought in or let in under Biden that remain untracked or stuck in legal limbo, like the 530,000 granted parole.
So while Trump has done a good job so far with the low-hanging fruit of illegal immigration, getting a handle on the tens of millions of illegals who remain in the country will be a long, difficult, and costly process with the left fighting against the administration every step of the way. Kennedy believes it should not be this hard to simply enforce federal immigration law. "If you're in our country illegally, you're a criminal," he tells Fox. "Illegal immigration is illegal...duh."
"And I think there are plenty of laws, which President Biden ignored, that allow us to deport you," he continues. "To me, it's straightforward."
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