The Justice Department’s mission “is to enforce the law and defend the interests of … all Americans.” Why then is the U.S. Justice Department doing everything it can to give more rights to foreign drug runners and illegal immigrants than to its own people?

On October 25, the Washington Times revealed just what a mockery Eric Holder’s Justice Department is making out of its supposed mission.

A U.S. Border Patrol agent has just been sentenced to two years in prison—for improperly lifting the arms of a Mexican national caught smuggling drugs across the border.

That’s right. Improperly lifting his arms.

Was the drug runner beaten? Not according to Jesus E. Diaz Jr., the agent in question, or the border patrol agent who stood next to him when the alleged mistreatment took place. Was there physical evidence? Bruises? Welts? Nope, only some irritated skin and “soreness,” not from anything the agent did, but from where the straps of the drug runner’s backpack, which had 75 pounds of marijuana in it, rubbed his shoulders.

Did the drug smuggler even complain of being beaten? Not until after talking with the Mexican consulate. And not until U.S. authorities had promised him immunity from prosecution in order to testify against Diaz Jr.

Why then is this even an issue? Good question.

Here is the extra ridiculous part. Both the Homeland Security Office of Inspector General and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had previously investigated the alleged improper arm lifting, and both cleared Agent Diaz of any wrongdoing. But the Mexican consulate was insistent. So the U.S. attorney’s office for Western Texas dutifully brought charges against the seven-year veteran. After a mistrial, a jury eventually convicted Diaz of using excessive force, in the form of improper arm lifting—a technique virtually all law enforcement officers are trained in—to subdue the resisting drug smuggler.

According to the Justice Department, Diaz violated the Mexican national’s “constitutional rights” by inflicting pain on him.

It is not clear how an illegal alien who snuck across the border with 75 pounds of drugs destined to dope Americans actually attains the “constitutional rights” of an American—but apparently it’s because some activist judge in cahoots with an activist Justice Department says so.

And for Officer Diaz’s supposed constitutional faux pas, he got two years of prison. And not just ordinary prison, but solitary confinement.

Of course, the real reason Agent Diaz got sold down the Rio Grande has nothing to do with improper arm lifting. The Mexican government was making a political point in its push for open borders (because closed borders is apparently a form of discrimination and racism)—and Agent Diaz was a political scalp that was taken all too willingly to placate the Mexican government.

Remember officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who shot a fleeing drug runner in the buttocks after he resisted arrest and then struggled with another officer? That drug smuggler was also given immunity to testify. He was given free medical treatment. Ramos and Compean were given 11 and 12 years respectively.

Then there was Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez, who shot out the tires of a van filled with illegals as it tried to run him down. One bullet fragment wounded one of the illegals. Both the Texas Rangers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives cleared Hernandez of any wrongdoing. Then one year later, at the behest of the Mexican government, the case was reopened by the U.S. Department of Justice. Hernandez was convicted of violating constitutional rights and sentenced to a year in prison.

This very orchestrated and unjust persecution of America’s border agents is just part of a bigger game being played by certain political groups.

Last month, Attorney General Holder told mourners at the funeral of civil rights activist Fred Shuttlesworth that he was determined to challenge state laws that crack down on illegal immigration. People are all too “willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past,” he said. “[W]e’re not going to let that happen.”

But Holder is not simply attacking state laws: He is encouraging other countries to attack American laws, too.

For example, last year the Justice Department asked the Ninth Circuit Court to allow other countries to dispute the constitutionality of Arizona’s new immigration law—within American courts.

That’s right: He asked the court to allow other countries to attack one of America’s 50 states.

And, astoundingly, the Ninth Circuit agreed. It accepted briefs attacking Arizona’s law from 11 countries including such stalwart friends as Argentina, Mexico, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Bolivia.

Then, in order to prove how America is trying to improve its human rights record, the State Department submitted the Arizona immigration law to a United Nations’ human rights report.

This is almost too inane for words. What an insult. Submitting America’s human rights record to review by countries like Saudi Arabia, Angola and Egypt—nations that allow husbands to beat their wives and that kill people for criticizing Mohammad.

And why is America looking to nations like Ecuador and Bolivia for advice on the constitutionality of American law? Why would the Justice Department help foreigners push their laws on Americans?

It is obvious that these American leaders—and even America’s courts—don’t value America’s Constitution.

President Obama himself famously stated that the Constitution “reflects some deep flaws in American culture” and that it “reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.”

If you really understand what the Justice Department and Obama administration are doing, you know it goes beyond simply not valuing the constitution. They actually despise it. And they want to destroy it.

President Obama and Holder are big believers in transnationalism. This belief incorporates the idea that minorities, immigrants and the underprivileged are victims. And that it is the government’s job to redistribute wealth from the rich world to the poor world. It also incorporates the vision of a post-sovereign era with nations without borders. In this future world, America is just one ordinary nation among many that owe their allegiance to an international legal order rather than to America’s Constitution. Americans become citizens of the world, ruled by international law.

Skeptical? In 2009 while visiting Berlin, Holder was asked if he would cooperate with foreign or international tribunals to prosecute Bush-era officials for how they fought the “war on terror.” His answer was essentially that although Washington wouldn’t arrest anyone, it would fulfill any “evidentiary requests” to help build legal cases.

As Trumpet columnist Joel Hilliker wrote at the time, “In other words, if a foreign or international court wants to try U.S. officials, the White House is there to supply the evidence it needs. Whatever is necessary to ‘clean up’ America’s international reputation.”

“You can be sure that Mr. Holder is going to start receiving those requests from foreigners eager to impose their laws on American officials,” he wrote. “A number of foreigners are already getting busy.”

In June, Mexico and 10 other nations sued Georgia over its new immigration laws.

In August, 15 nations challenged Alabama’s new anti-illegal immigration law—for apparently violating international human rights. They joined the Justice Department, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Roman Catholic Church in the move to strike down the law.

Utah and South Carolina are also now being sued by foreign nations upset with their immigration laws.

Foreign nations can now use U.S courts to block U.S. laws—and the U.S. Justice Department and Obama administration are actually happy about it!

Many of these nations suing American states over laws that supposedly violate human rights are the most notorious offenders of human rights issues. What an upside-down and backward world.

The Bible talks about a time when justice would leave the land. In Isaiah 59, God warns that because people have forgotten Him and His commands, “judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.”

Judgment is backward. Truth is trodden down. And there is no equity. Sound like America today?

“The way of peace they know not,” says God. “And there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.”

“Our mission is to enforce the law and defend the interests of … all Americans.” The Justice Department needs a new mission statement because it is trampling all over this one. Perhaps one about defending the interests of illegal immigrants and foreign nations over the people of the United States.