To summarize the Democrat Party's current strategy on immigration, here is essentially how it works:
Whenever in power, they create billions in incentives and subsidies to entice third world migrants to flood the US en masse. With open borders and amnesty programs, moving 10 million or more illegals at a time into the country is easy and fast. When out of power, they use lawfare and political obstruction to prevent deportations and slow down the process.
In other words, make immigration easy and remigration nearly impossible. Stall for four years, regain power during the next election while pro-deportation constituents whine and complain about the president "not doing enough", then repeat the process all over again. Under the current system, it would take three full conservative presidential terms or more to undo what Democrats did in a single term. That is the play they are relying on.
From 2017 to 2024, the Trump Administration faced 64 nationwide injunctions on immigration and deportation policies; 92% of them came from judges appointed by Democrat presidents.
From 2025 to today, Trump has been blocked at least 86 times by activist judges nationwide or class-wide injunctions and major program pauses. To put this in perspective, nationwide injunctions were extremely rare through the 20th Century. Starting in 2000, the numbers increased, but nowhere near the level Trump has dealt with.
George W Bush had only 6 injunctions from Democrat judges. Barack Obama had 12 injunctions from Republican judges. Biden had 28 injunctio
