President Donald Trump has ended the era of former President Joe Biden's soft deportations, in which most amnesty cases were never even heard, just dismissed or closed and seemingly forgotten.

Under Trump, some of these dismissed and closed deportation cases are being reopened, much to the dismay of illegal immigrants who thought their way was clear to remain in the U.S. indefinitely (though still with illegal status). 

“Biden chose to release millions of illegal aliens, including criminals, into the country and used prosecutorial discretion to indefinitely delay their cases and allow them to illegally remain in the United States,” [DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin] said. “Now, President Trump and Secretary Noem are following the law and resuming these illegal aliens’ removal proceedings and ensuring their cases are heard by a judge.”

The Los Angeles Times bemoaned the fact that some of these illegal immigrants have built lives in the U.S. based on the belief that their cases were over and they would never face deportation.

Switcheroo

So Biden basically invites millions of illegal immigrants to cross the border and gives them asylum hearings months or years in the future.

Then his administration uses the backlog that he created as a reason to dismiss or close the cases, leaving the millions of illegal immigrants in the country in perpetuity.

We've already gone over the reasons for doing this: some of them manage to vote illegally, and maybe one day amnesty will happen and there will be millions of new Democrat voters to tip the scales permanently in their direction.

Trump wants to clear the backlog of amnesty cases and deal with them the right way--the way Biden should have dealt with them all along.

Over 700,000

But how many illegal immigrants actually got soft amnesty under Biden?

“Under the Biden-Harris Administration,” a report from the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement released last year said, “more than 700,000 illegal aliens have had their cases dismissed, terminated, or administratively closed, allowing those aliens to stay in the country indefinitely without facing immigration consequences."

Let's remember that in 2020, Joe Biden only won enough electoral votes to become president by about 45,000 total votes in 3 states. What kind of impact do you think 700,000 or more new voters would have?

In addition, if only about 6.5% of these 700,000 managed to figure out how to vote, it could tip the scales in a close election.

It's hard not to feel for people who are having their lives disrupted in ways they had come to think were no longer possible once their cases were closed or dismissed, but it was never a great idea to build your life on an illegal activity, like moving to another country by breaking the law.

Trump's immigration reform is not going to be a happy thing for some people, but it's going to be better in the long run for America, which is what Trump cares about.