A commentary has come up with a stunningly direct solution to the problem created by federal judges who oppose President Donald Trump’s border security plans that include deporting illegal alien criminals when they order them un-deported, or brought back.
Specifically, there’s a case involving a Boston judge, Brian Murphy, who has demanded the government not deport a list of criminals who had been convicted of crimes including attempted first-degree murder, homicide, assault and more.
The criminals had been en route to South Sudan when the judge interrupted the deportation, ordering that the U.S. must maintain custody of them, so ICE officers have been guarding the criminals in a make-shift location in Djibouti.
According to the column by M.D. Kittle at the Federalist, “Murphy, like the other rogue judges who have attempted to stop the executive branch from carrying out the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws (as the Second Branch is empowered to do), demand the kind of due process rights for illegal immigrants reserved for criminal proceedings. They have no such rights.”
In fact, Lora Ries, of the Heritage Foundation’s Border Security and Immigration Center, has explained, “The administrative immigration judges are Justice Department employees in the executive branch; they are not federal judges under the Article III Judiciary of the U.S. Constitution. That means deportable aliens in deportation proceedings do not have the same rights as a person in a criminal trial, such as being innocent until proven guilty, the right to a taxpayer funded public defendant, etc. Removing a deportable alien is not a criminal sentence.”
Kittle suggested Trump “likes a good deal,” and perhaps it’s time for one.
“How about this one: The administration agrees to bring back the violent criminals only if Murphy agrees to put them up at his house while the illegal immigrants receive ‘time enough to express any concerns.’ Maybe Enrique Arias-Hierro could bunk with the Murphy family. I’m sure the illegal immigrant wouldn’t reoffend and violate the Boston judge’s due process rights.”
That illegal alien, in fact, is from Cuba. “His criminal history includes convictions for homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of official, kidnapping, robbery strong arm,” the column said.
Murphy, in fact, has ruled that the administration could not deport criminal aliens to third-party countries when their own nations refused to take them back. When the Supreme Court overturned Murphy’s ruling, he simply said that ruling didn’t apply to the case he was handling and his ruling still stood.
The column pointed out the idea to house the criminals is like that used by two Republican governors to “hit self-righteous, sanctuary leftists where they lived.”
That would be Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis who “triggered” Democrats in 2022 when they began busing and flying “undocumented migrants” to Democrat-controlled cities and locales like Martha’s Vineyard, “the posh playground of liberal elites including Barack and Michelle Obama.”
Under Biden’s practices, America’s borders were wide open and millions, even tens of millions of illegals entered. Among those were gang members and even terrorists.
Trump now is working to clean up the “millions-fold mess left by his predecessor.”
And it is that agenda that “rogue federal judges have attempted to stop.”
The column noted the eight convicts at issue in the Murphy case include:
- “Nyo Myint, an illegal from Burma and registered sex offender. He was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting; sentenced to 12 years confinement. Myint is also charged with aggravated assault-nonfamily strongarm.
- “Enrique Arias-Hierro, from Cuba, His criminal history includes convictions for homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of official, kidnapping, robbery strong arm.
- “Tuan Thanh Phan, from Vietnam, was convicted of first-degree murder and second-degree assault. He was sentenced to 22 years confinement. Prior to that, he was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon on a school facility as a juvenile in 1999.
- “Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, from Cuba, has been convicted of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon, battery and larceny, cocaine possession and trafficking.”
- Another defendant has faced charges of “lascivious acts with a child.”
We conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States.
No country on earth wanted to accept them because their crimes are so uniquely monstrous and barbaric.
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 21, 2025
Kyaw MYA, a citizen of Burma was arrested by ICE on February 18, 2025. MYA is convicted of Lascivious Acts with a Child-Victim less than 12 years of age; sentenced to 10 years confinement, paroled after 4 years. pic.twitter.com/LBKzTBaw07
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) May 21, 2025