President Donald Trump is sounding the alarm on the growing judicial obstruction he says is crippling his administration’s effort to clean up the illegal immigration disaster left behind by Joe Biden.
In a pair of Truth Social posts Monday, Trump went after federal judges—and even the Supreme Court—for slowing down or outright blocking his efforts to deport gang members and violent criminals under the Alien Enemies Act. The law, revived by Trump in March, was meant to speed up removals of foreign nationals from terror-linked gangs like MS-13 and Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua.
But instead of backing his crackdown, the courts keep getting in the way.
“I’m doing what I was elected to do,” Trump wrote. “Remove criminals from our Country, but the Courts don’t seem to want me to do that.”
Trump specifically called out the Supreme Court for temporarily pausing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, including those involving members of Venezuelan prison gangs. “They are being stymied at every turn,” he said of his immigration team. “Even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter.”
The president argued that the courts have been manipulated by the Left. “The Courts are intimidated by the Radical Left who are ‘playing the Ref,’” he wrote.
One justice, however, earned Trump’s praise: “Great Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito correctly wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He is right on this!”
Justice Alito recently issued a scathing dissent over the court’s 5-4 decision to halt Trump’s deportation flights. Trump echoed Alito’s frustration, warning that if the administration is forced to provide individual trials for every deportee, enforcement becomes physically impossible.
“We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” Trump stated. “We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
In a follow-up post, Trump ripped into the courts and Democrats for defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the MS-13 member who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year and is now at the center of a media firestorm.
“This is the man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, that the Courts are trying to save from being deported?” Trump asked. “He was supposed to be, according to the Judge and the Democrats, a wonderful father from Maryland, but then they noticed he had ‘MS-13’ tattooed onto his knuckles (and lots of really bad stories about his past!).”
Garcia’s case has become a political lightning rod. While Democrats like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) have flown to El Salvador to advocate for his return, Trump and his supporters argue he’s exactly the kind of violent criminal the administration is right to deport.
MS-13, Trump reminded followers, is “perhaps, the worst” of all criminal gangs operating in the United States.
“This is the gang that is, perhaps, the worst of them all. What is wrong with our Country?” he wrote.
The president’s frustration reflects a broader concern within the administration: nearly every major immigration move since January 20 has been challenged in court. Judges, many appointed by Democrats, have issued a steady stream of injunctions that tie up the administration in legal delays—while dangerous criminals remain on U.S. soil.
Trump’s message is clear: the courts aren’t just obstructing policy—they’re endangering the country. And if the judicial branch continues to stall enforcement, the president warns, America may soon lose the ability to defend itself from the very criminals it’s trying to expel.
