Democrats have come to be the leftist party, so taking liberal or progressive positions is not unexpected. Leftist ideas and policies are typically illogical and unpopular, so Democrat misrepresentations to sell their agenda in not surprising. However, Democrats doubling down on downright stupid stunts to support illegal activities and illegal immigrants is shocking.

Americans elected President Trump to secure the border, get illegal immigration under control, and deport illegal aliens particularly criminals. These policies are overwhelmingly supported by voters, so what are Democrats thinking by vociferously opposing them? They are literally demanding the administration return deported illegal alien criminals to America! To most Americans, that’s insanity. Or is there some malicious method to this madness?

Trump in less than three months secured the border and reduced illegal border crossings by a breath taking 99%. The Biden administration refused to enforce immigration laws, abandoned border security, and just made lame excuses. Some may say Trump exposed the Biden administration’s incompetence, but he revealed Democrat complicity.

The optics are beyond odd. A Maryland mother, Rachel Morin, was brutally raped and murdered in 2023 by an illegal alien, but her tragic case was barely even noticed by the Biden administration and Maryland politicians. Oh, but when Trump started vigorously deporting illegal immigrants, Democrats were apoplectic and could not contain themselves. Though never having contacted Rachel Morin’s family, Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen rushed to El Salvador to meet with an illegal alien criminal to offer support and advocate for his return.

Do what?! This chosen illegal alien criminal is an MS13 gang member with a long history of domestic abuse and human trafficking. With two previous deportation orders, he was deported to his home country, but Van Hollen is demanding he be “brought home!” Home?! He is home now in El Salvador! Aside from being inane, it’s insane!

Desperately seeking another George Floyd, Democrats are frantically looking to exploit any sympathetic figure to deceive and rile the public. Trying to transform an MS13 gang member into just a “Maryland dad,” they hope they can create a fake narrative to scare Americans into believing anyone can be deported. Uh, if you are a citizen or here legally, you have nothing to fear. Most Americans are not fooled.

Blue cities and states are still straining to resist Trump and specifically his Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts. These cities and states are drowning in crime, so it makes no sense they are trying to prevent illegal alien criminals from being removed from their streets. Democrats in blue areas also want safe communities, so they are puzzled by their Democrat leaders wanting to protect and retain criminals.

Continuing their pernicious lawfare from last year’s campaign, liberal judges at the district level are routinely exceeding their authority to insert themselves into national policies and thwart the Trump agenda Americans overwhelmingly voted for last year. Not a Constitutional crisis but a Constitutional dilemma, it takes five Supreme Court justices to override the Executive Branch, not any lowly remote Federal District judge.

Now we have judges breaking the law to support illegal immigration. Judges are sworn to uphold the law as written whether they agree with it or not. That’s the core tenet that keeps our society from devolving into anarchy, but a Wisconsin judge with a legal alien in her court charged with domestic violence abandoned her oath to try and spirit him way from waiting ICE officers. No matter what your stance on illegal immigration, she broke the law and should be promptly punished and removed from the bench. It’s obvious to most, but most Democrat officials are claiming in this case breaking the law is justified. That’s crazy, so have Democrats lost their minds?

Despite their ridiculous reasoning, Democrats are not crazy, but they are consistent. Leaving the border wide open and not enforcing any immigration laws during the Biden administration seemed insane, but it was by design. Democrats simply intended to overwhelm the system with millions of illegal immigrants we could never deal with but that would eventually become Democrat voters. They are determined to manipulate American demographics to favor them at any cost.

Democrats see mass deportations as a direct threat to their future influence, so they must stop Trump. Just like leaving the borders wide open, they now insist the millions of illegal immigrants they allowed to invade without “due process” must be granted exhaustive “due process” to deport them. It’s simply the other side of the coin to overwhelm the system.

Democrats do not care about the Constitution or illegal immigrants. They only care about power. They are just using illegal immigrants to collapse local governments and reshape the electorate. As societal problems mount, they demand more power without offering viable solutions, and then rely on distorted electorates to retain power.

To average Americans, Democrats advocating for illegal immigrants and posturing to protect the chaos caused by open borders seems insane, but there is a malicious method to their madness. Democrats know they are losing working Americans, so they are planning to rely on the new voters they have illegally imported.

Again, Democrats do not care about Americans or the country; they only care about regaining power and they are sticking with the Biden administration’s globalist scheme to dismantle our Constitutional Republic. Like any totalitarian regime, the plight of the people is irrelevant as long as Democrats are in power. It’s ugly and looks crazy, but the only goal is raw power.

“But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived” (2 Timothy 3:13).

Pete Riehm is a Navy Veteran, conservative activist, and columnist in south Alabama. Email him at peteriehm@bellsouth.net or read all his columns at http://www.renewamerica.com/.