President Donald Trump is taking decisive action to secure America’s southern border. Yet many Democrats and Obama-appointed federal district court judges are fighting him on behalf of illegal immigrant gang members.

The judiciary has a constitutional role as a check and balance on the executive branch, but the numbers speak for themselves. The number of federal court injunctions against a president’s actions are as follows:

• George W. Bush (two terms): 6
• Barack Obama (two terms): 12
• Donald Trump (one term): 64
• Joe Biden (one term): 14
• Donald Trump (58 days): 15

After President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War ii, the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward sued his administration. United States District Judge James Boasberg issued an order temporarily blocking the administration from deporting Tren de Aragua gang members because they had not gone before a federal court judge.

The Alien Enemies Act is part of a set of four laws enacted in 1798 to give the president the power to imprison and deport noncitizens in time of war. President Trump has designated Tren de Aragua and seven other drug cartels as terrorist organizations and is using this act to deport foreign terrorists without trial. On March 15, Judge Boasberg ordered two planes deporting Tren de Aragua to El Salvador to return to the U.S., but the planes—already airborne—completed their missions. Now Trump’s Justice Department is appealing Boasberg’s restraining order.

Can the judges stop the president?

The crux of the legal argument between Trump and Boasberg is whether or not America is at war with Latin American drug cartels. If the U.S. is experiencing “declared war … invasion or predatory incursion,” the Alien Enemies Act gives the president broad powers to detain noncitizens. Boasberg and other critics are arguing that America is not at war with Venezuela or the Tren de Aragua cartel. President Trump disagrees. When asked about the issue, he noted that Joe Biden allowed millions of criminals into the country and asserted, “This is a time of war.”

The U.S. is obviously not in a declared war in the same sense as it was during the War of 1812, World War i or World War ii, the three instances in which the Alien Enemies Act had been invoked prior to March 15. Yet it is undeniable that it is suffering “invasion or predatory incursion” from foreign drug cartels. This gives President Trump the constitutional right to deport Tren de Aragua members and other terrorists without trial.

The Federal Register reads: “Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation … all natives, citizens, denizens or subjects of the hostile nation … shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed as alien enemies” (50 U.S.C. § 21).

Obama-appointed federal district court judges may not like this law, but it clearly states that the president has power to unilaterally deport foreign nationals whenever there is a “declared war” or the nation is suffering “any invasion or predatory incursion.” Judge Boasberg’s blocking of this power conflicts with the Constitution because he is stopping the president from doing his constitutional duty to enforce the duly enacted laws of the Federal Register.

“Judge Boasberg has no constitutional authority to make immigration policy,” writes best-selling author Kevin McCullough at Townhall. “As multiple Supreme Court decisions have reaffirmed, that power resides with Congress and the president. … What Boasberg has done is dangerous, unconstitutional and completely detached from reality. He’s pretending that the judiciary is somehow an equal partner in immigration enforcement, which it is not. Courts interpret laws; they don’t write them, and they certainly don’t get to override a sitting president’s clear, legal authority.”

If the American people want Tren de Aragua terrorists to remain in their country, they can elect congressional representatives who will abolish the Alien Enemies Act. The president will then be obligated to enforce whatever laws their representatives pass.

But opinion polls indicate that 59 percent of Americans approve of President Trump increasing deportations. Radical Democrats are resorting not to the Constitution or democracy but rather judicial activism—and they are doing so for the sake of keeping foreign criminals in the country. The radical left’s extremism is being exposed for the whole world to see! These Obama-appointed judges care far more for Venezuelan terrorists than they care about the American people.

America’s founders, having just experienced tyranny, nevertheless chose to establish a unitary executive. Why? So that the national government could act decisively and so that people would know who to blame if the nation’s laws were not faithfully executed.

Radical leftists are trying to pretend that any of the 700 federal district court judges have veto power over the president’s decisions. And again, they are contorting the Constitution to their own will to keep Americans weak and under threat!

“Leftist radicals hate the Constitution,” my father wrote in “Saving America from the Radical Left—Temporarily.” “Barack Obama has stated explicitly that it is an outdated document and criticized it for being ‘a charter of negative liberties.’ Liberals in academia, the media and in government don’t believe governing officials should be restricted by the limitations imposed by the Constitution. America’s founders imposed those restrictions to prevent tyranny!”

For the past four years, Joe Biden—controlled by Obama—deliberately refused to enforce the border security laws passed by Congress in an attempt to fundamentally transform America. Now that a lawful president is in office, leftists are trying to use the judiciary to stop him from enforcing border security laws passed by Congress. The fact that Judge Boasberg and others are trying to stop President Trump from enforcing the law and securing the border reveals their lawless spirit.

The radicals likely won’t have much success. Besides the fact that their goal is horrendous and most of the country can see that, the Supreme Court is the ultimate judicial authority, and it has already ruled in favor of allowing President Trump to enforce the law.

A prophecy in Amos 7:12-13 indicates President Trump is going to have much more success establishing the rule of law in America during his second term than he had in his first term. To learn more about why this is the case, read my newest Trumpet article “President Trump vs. the Bureaucratic State.”