If ‘Temporary Refugees’ Aren’t Removed Now, They Never Will Be
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This article, published by Phyllis Schlafly eagles, argues for a sharp tightening of U.S. immigration policy under President Trump. It portrays the governance’s efforts to roll back large-scale refugee admissions as a positive development and contrasts it wiht Biden’s higher refugee intake in 2024. The piece describes Trump’s Executive Order 14163 to Realign the United States Refugee Admissions Program and claims that revoking protected status for Haitians and Syrians who were labeled as persecuted back home is a necessary step. It also casts Syria and Haiti policy changes as part of a broader shift toward stronger border control and self-sufficiency in national security.
The article highlights ongoing legal battles, noting that lower courts blocked parts of Trump’s plans, but the supreme Court signaled relief by agreeing to hear arguments with a decision expected by summer. It cites favorable rulings from the Ninth Circuit and the First Circuit on related deportation authorities and emphasizes the administration’s stance that existing court resistance must be overcome to implement its policies. The piece also promotes the DHS “self-deportation” program, which offered stipends to encourage illegal aliens to leave voluntarily, claiming millions have self-deported and that the program saved taxpayers money, while acknowledging Democrats’ opposition. The author views illegal immigration as a potential political threat to Democrats and frames this as a pivotal, final opportunity to deport those who would or else remain. The piece closes by noting that John and Andy Schlafly, sons of Phyllis Schlafly, continue her policy-writing work.
A bright spot in immigration policy, the issue on which President Trump polls the best among his supporters, is the progress being made toward removing so-called refugees from our country. On Monday, Trump won the second of two court victories in March in favor of his policy to roll back the Democrat practice of importing massive numbers of refugees from the Third World.
Upon taking office, President Trump ended the misuse of the refugee program by issuing Executive Order No. 14163, “Realigning the United States Refugee Admissions Program.” Biden had brought in more than 100,000 so-called refugees in fiscal year 2024, which was the highest level in 30 years.
Trump has properly sought to revoke the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) of whole groups of Haitians and Syrians who were brought into our country under the fiction that they were being politically persecuted back home. Haitians famously settled in Springfield and Columbus, Ohio, totaling about 350,000 people nationwide, and Trump won the election by campaigning on sending them and other mislabeled refugees back home.
Haiti is a poor country victimized by crime, but has strict gun control laws that impede the ability of law-abiding residents to defend themselves, and no death penalty to deter murder. Visitors who have valid U.S. gun permits are not allowed to carry their arms in self-defense in Haiti.
As for Syria, the Biden administration and liberals supported the toppling of the Syrian regime in December 2024 while Biden was still president. The theory that allowed thousands of Syrians to remain in our country as refugees from the former Assad regime no longer applies, and it’s time for them to go home.
Yet lower federal courts in liberal New York, Seattle, and Washington, D.C., have stymied the Trump administration’s efforts to revamp Biden’s policies. Trump’s phenomenal solicitor general, John Sauer, applied for emergency relief with the U.S. Supreme Court to stay two of these lower court decisions against Trump, and the 9th Circuit ruled directly for Trump in the third case.
On Monday, the Supreme Court mostly granted Trump’s requested relief by scheduling oral argument on this issue by late April and thereby signaling that a full decision will be rendered by the end of June. While the court did not authorize the immediate removal of these refugees, it appears that their return will become possible by summer.
Earlier this month, in Pacito v. Trump, the 9th Circuit held in favor of Trump’s executive order that halted the flow of so-called refugees into our country. That court recognized the nearly unlimited authority granted by Congress to the president to halt this misguided program.
More good news came from the 1st Circuit concerning the deportation of illegal aliens. Two of the three judges on the panel, including a George W. Bush appointee and a Democrat-appointed judge, ruled that Trump may be allowed to deport an illegal alien to a third country.
As a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) explained in response, “The Biden Administration allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood our country, and the Trump Administration has the authority to remove these criminal illegal aliens and clean up this national security nightmare.”
The DHS spokesman said that if “activist[] judges had their way, aliens who are so uniquely barbaric that their own countries won’t take them back, including convicted murderers, child rapists and drug traffickers, would walk free on American streets.”
Last year, Trump prevailed on this issue in the U.S. Supreme Court, but then the district judge said the facts had changed and continued to block Trump’s deportations to third countries. The district judge wanted a process by which the illegal alien would have a “meaningful opportunity” to object to being deported to another country after his homeland rejects his return.
But the ongoing campaign of deporting illegals has reportedly slowed, and there are reports that someone in the White House has told Republicans not to use the phrase “mass deportation.”
The self-deportation campaign — in which DHS was paying illegal aliens $2,600 each to voluntarily leave through the use of a government phone app — depends on involuntary deportations to be effective. A total of 2.2 million people had self-deported through January of this year, according to DHS, and Democrats were furious about an ad campaign encouraging more illegal aliens to self-deport.
Democrats view illegal aliens as their future voters, as many Somalis have become in Minnesota after obtaining citizenship. Realistically, this is the last opportunity to deport illegals, while Republicans control all branches of the federal government and public opinion strongly favors border control.
John and Andy Schlafly are sons of Phyllis Schlafly (1924-2016) and lead the continuing Phyllis Schlafly Eagles organizations with writing and policy work.
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