Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is right! Activist Judges are causing an enormous amount of trouble throughout the Country!

 

Florida attorney general rejects federal judge’s ruling on immigration

By Susan Quinn www.americanthinker.com

For Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, the meddling of U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams was one step too far when she ruled to override a new Florida law:

An activist judge has ordered Florida to stop the enforcement of their recent law allowing misdemeanor charges for illegal aliens who enter Florida to evade immigration authorities. This is the showdown; a judge’s order is about to be effectively defied by a major state official.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier will refuse a judge’s demand that his office order state law enforcement to halt enforcement of a state immigration law she ordered paused under her suspicion of its unconstitutionality.

Once again, we see a judge swerving out of her lane to reject not only Donald Trump’s agenda for immigration enforcement, but to stymie efforts by an attorney general who is arresting illegal migrants for misdemeanor charges as the migrants dodge immigration enforcement.

The judge is offended by the AG’s reaction to her ruling:

Her [Williams’s] remarks came after she previously had scolded lawyers for Uthmeier’s office after learning that Florida Highway Patrol officers had arrested more than a dozen people — including a U.S. citizen — despite her ordering them to stop on April 4 when she issued a 14-day temporary restraining order that blocked enforcement on the state’s immigration law.

The judge told lawyers for the attorney general on Tuesday to consult with Uthmeier about withdrawing his advice to police officers to ignore her order, but they said Uthmeier was not retreating from his position.

‘What I am offended by is someone suggesting you don’t have to follow my order, that it’s not legitimate,’ Williams said.

I’d describe the judge’s reaction as a bit on the arrogant side.

Meanwhile, AG Uthmeier notified the law enforcement agencies in Florida that they were not parties to the judge’s rulings and therefore could continue to enforce the law:

In a court filing leading up to Tuesday’s hearing, Uthmeier’s office argued that the immigrant groups’ lawsuit only applies to his office and state prosecutors in Florida, noting that ‘a court’s judgment binds only the parties to a suit.’

Lawyers for his office argued the judge’s ruling does not apply to ‘independent’ law enforcement agencies, such as the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, county sheriffs’ offices and local police.

‘They are not parties,’ the attorney general’s office asserted, because they are not ‘in active concert or participation with’ his office and state prosecutors in Florida.

The judge has scheduled a special hearing for May 15, which may include finding Uthmeier in contempt of court.

Finally, the Attorney General explained why he rejects the judge’s ruling:

‘I explained that I believed her after-the-fact expansion of her order to nonparties was wrong, and that my office would be arguing as much in short order. Today, my office filed a brief explaining why her order cannot possibly restrain Florida’s law enforcement agencies from enforcing Florida Statutes Sections 811.102 and 811.103. We will continue to argue that position—including on appeal as soon as possible,’ Uthmeier wrote in the memo, obtained by Fox News Digital.

Maybe if more attorneys general pushed back against these rogue judges, more of these judges might understand that they are making rulings far beyond their authority.

 

Thank Heaven President Trump Administration has the old attitude - 'Where there is a Will, there is a way'!

 

Trump Admin Uses GENIUS Move to Sidestep Judge Who Tried to Stop Them From Deporting Illegals

By Kaley – WLT Report 4-24-25

The Trump administration just pulled a brilliant move to get around a rogue, activist judge’s attempt to stop them from deporting certain illegal aliens.

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Brian E. Murphy — who was appointed by Joe Biden — ordered the Trump administration to give illegal aliens with final removal orders a chance to argue if being deported could ‘jeopardize their safety.’

Keep in mind that several of these illegal aliens slated for deportation were Tren de Aragua gang members, and one was even a sex offender.

In other words, liberal Judge Murphy ordered the Trump administration to prioritize these criminals’ safety over that of American citizens.

However, the Trump administration went ahead and deported them anyways. And, in a hearing on Wednesday, DHS attorneys argued that they technically complied with Judge Murphy’s order.

You see, the Trump administration came up with a quick and creative workaround to deport these illegal gang members and sex offenders without violating the order.

They started deporting the illegals through the Department of Defense, instead of the Department of Homeland Security.

Here’s why that’s so genius: courts cannot dictate military operations!

Checkmate!

TRUMP IS A GENIUS!
Liberal Judge Murphy ordered DHS not to deport; so Trump turns it over to the DOD!

COURT CANNOT DICTATE MILITARY OPERATIONS!

It also includes a sworn declaration from a DHS official, who stated that every person deported after Murphy’s court order was sent… pic.twitter.com/pDD0zYlwPe

— TRUTH NOW (@sxdoc) April 24, 2025

TRUMP IS A GENIUS!

Liberal Judge Murphy ordered DHS not to deport; so Trump turns it over to the DOD!

COURT CANNOT DICTATE MILITARY OPERATIONS!

It also includes a sworn declaration from a DHS official, who stated that every person deported after Murphy’s court order was sent to Guantanamo Bay before being shipped off to El Salvador on military flights.

Trump Administration Utilizes a Brilliant Workaround to Outwit Biden Judge Who Tried to Bar Them from Deporting Certain Illegal Aliens.

NEW: Trump administration says if DHS can’t fast-track deport Venezuelans to El Salvador, DOD can

DHS has argued in a court filing that because DOD was not a defendant in the challenge to rapid deportations to third-party countries, deportations to El Salvador carried out by… https://t.co/ghuHMvZ49Y pic.twitter.com/Xo5HWlfNir

— Kimberly “Kim” Wexler MA JD (@KimWexlerMAJD) April 24, 2025

NEW: Trump administration says if DHS can’t fast-track deport Venezuelans to El Salvador, DOD can

DHS has argued in a court filing that because DOD was not a defendant in the challenge to rapid deportations to third-party countries, deportations to El Salvador carried out by DOD did not violate Judge Murphy’s order requiring due process (notice and opportunities for protection applications).

Court records show three individuals were removed to El Salvador on March 31, 2025, by DOD on flights with no DHS personnel onboard.

Axios broke it down:

The Trump administration argued Wednesday that it did not violate a federal judge’s restraining order detailing required due process for certain deportations to third-party countries because of a technicality.

Why it matters: Attorneys for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said that it had complied with Judge Brian E. Murphy’s order because the Department of Defense (DOD), rather than DHS, carried out the deportations in question.

Catch up quick: Plaintiffs in the case had challenged the Trump admin’s practice of deporting people to a country other than their own without giving them notice or a chance to contest their removal.

·         Murphy had previously told the Trump admin that people with final removal orders must have an opportunity to argue that deportation to a country other than their own could jeopardize their safety.

·         The Trump administration went ahead with several such deportations anyway.

The Washington Examiner also reported:

Last month, Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with immigration lawyers who filed a class action lawsuit against the government on behalf of four migrants who they said were at risk of being deported without appropriate due process or had already been wrongly deported.

Murphy responded by granting an order that did not stop the DHS from carrying out deportations but rather put a stipulation on removing any migrants who had received final orders of removal from an immigration judge. The order required the DHS to give “meaningful notice” to those migrants if the department planned to deport them to a country other than the one listed on their final orders of removal.

When the immigration attorneys identified several foreign nationals who they said were deported without that level of notice, government attorneys responded that the Department of Defense had deported them rather than the DHS.

One migrant was a registered sex offender in New York. Another migrant was an “identified Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang member” and was deported to El Salvador “by the Department of Defense on a flight with no DHS personnel onboard,” government attorneys said.

“DHS did not direct the Department of Defense” to remove them, the attorneys said, adding, “The Department of Defense is not a defendant in this action.”

 

Lawless border violations continue to plague CBP with encounters with Cartel drug shippments. This post explains numerous encounters.

 

Judicial Watch: Customs and Border Protection Seize Drones Flying Meth, Heroin, Fentanyl Across U.S. Borders

4-30-2025 judicialwatch.org

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 14 pages of records from U.S. Customs and Border Protection in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show border agents seized drones transporting methamphetamine, heroin, and fentanyl across the U.S. southern and northern borders.

 The records were produced in response to a March 16, 2022, FOIA request for: 

Any and all records maintained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security concerning (1) drones recovered or seized along the United States and Mexico Border (2) type and quantity of any illegal drugs seized from those drones recovered or seized drones (3) location where drones were seized or recovered (4) arrests or convictions resulting from illegal drugs being transported across the United States border via any type of drone (5) confirmed or suspected incidents where decoy drones were used to draw agents to a fake drug drop site.

The newly obtained records include a September 21, 2022, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report,” describing activity in New York:

At approximately 0200hrs on 09/21/22, Agents of [redacted] Station in conjunction with [redacted] were notified that [redacted] identified a DJI M300 drone originating in the United States had entered Canada. The drone landed and spent approximately 10 minutes in Canada. The drone returned to the United States to [redacted] NY where agents were waiting and observed the drone and an attached package, land in the back yard. Agents entered the property and encountered the drone pilot and an unknown number of additional subjects. At that time, all subjects fled the yard and entered the house. Agents in hot pursuit, entered the house and took the pilot into custody. An unknown number of subjects absconded from the house into the surrounding neighborhood and 2 additional subjects were later taken into custody. All subjects were identified as Chinese nationals, claiming U.S. citizenship. The house was cleared for potential people and no evidence was seized at that time. At this time, the house is secured pending a search warrant from federal district court to enter the residence and seize evidence. At this time, there is a potential to seize a house, 2 vehicles, the package of suspected narcotics, several drones and associated hardware and an unknown quantity of cash. The suspected narcotics were field tested using the [redacted] and tested positive for the properties of methylenedioxy-methamphetamine (MDMA) with a weight of 3123 grams [6.88 lbs.].

An October 7, 2021, Customs and Border Protection “Evolving Situation Report” on “Drug Seizure” describes activity in California:

9:28 AM….

[A]t approximately 0840 hrs., a drone [redacted] made an incursion in [redacted] west of [redacted] POE [point of entry]. Agents on the ground observed the drone drop a white package as it hovered over a parking lot west of the [redacted] California POE, [redacted]….

12:29 At approximately 0850, agents on the ground were able to seize the drone along with a small package filled with a white powder substance at the following location [redacted]. 2 USC’s [likely referring to U.S. citizens] were arrested in connection with the drone and transported to [redacted]. Agents from [redacted] responded to interview the subjects. The white powder will be transported to the [redacted] checkpoint to be identified utilizing a [redacted] narcotics analyzer….

17:15 The white powder was tested and determined to be methamphetamine with a weight of .26 kilograms [over ½ lb] and a street value of $1500. The drone and meth have been transported to [redacted] and placed into the [redacted].

An April 29, 2020, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report” describes activity in Arizona:

[A]t approximately 1705 hours [redacted] Border Patrol Agents (BPAs) in the field notified the [redacted] Border Patrol Station Duty Desk [redacted] regarding a downed drone containing possible narcotics. Supervisory Boder Patrol Agents … arrived on scene and photographed the evidence. BPAs seized and transported the drone and possible narcotics to [redacted] Station. The Yuma Sector Evidence Team … was notified and responded to the [redacted] Station for testing and fingerprinting.

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1854 hours: Narcotics tested positive for methamphetamine (462.82g) [over 1 lb].

A May 7, 2020, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report” states that, at approximately 2100 hours, Border Patrol agents report an abandoned drone near (redacted) Arizona, with two packages containing a white substance that tests positive for 727.2 grams, over 1 ½ lbs., of methamphetamine.

A June 26, 2020, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report” describes activity in Arizona. At approximately 0340 hours, (redacted) police department asks for assistance with a possible drone they found in a resident’s backyard. A Border Patrol agent responds and discovers a drone along with several packages that test positive for narcotics. The drone and narcotics are seized.

A September 7, 2021, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report” describes activity in Arizona. At approximately 0037 hours, a drone from Mexico is detected entering the United States near (redacted), Arizona. At 0136 hours the “DJI Inspire 2” drone is discovered on the ground and contraband is discovered attached to it. The contraband tests positive for 1.47689676 kgs, over 3 lbs., of methamphetamine.

An October 29, 2021, Customs and Border Protection “Significant Incident Report” describes activity in Arizona. At approximately 2030 hours, a Border Patrol agent detects a drone entering the United States (Arizona) from Mexico near (redacted). The agent is able to “mitigate the drone” and force it to land. Three kilograms, over six and one-half lbs., of heroin is attached to the bottom of the drone.

A September 2, 2021, Customs and Border Protection “Evolving Situation Report” regarding an “incursion” in California states:

[A]t approximately 10:21 p.m., the [redacted] Border Patrol Station is notified by the San Diego Sector [redacted] of a possible drone incursion … [originating] in an area of Mexico … The possible drone then promptly returned to Mexico … The drone made a second incursion from the same location and proceeded to the drop location. A white Chevrolet Equinox arrived at the location of the drop … Agents followed the Equinox … where it was traffic stopped by [redacted] officers. Seven bricks of an unknown substance consistent [with] cocaine and two Tupperware containers of pills consistent [with] Fentanyl [were seized].

“These documents dramatically confirm that the Biden administration allowed the drug cartels, which the Trump administration has correctly identified as terrorist threats, to engage military-like drone campaigns against the United States from abroad,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

In an April 12, 2022, Corruption Chronicles report, Judicial Watch detailed how Mexican drug cartels conducted more than 9,000 drone flights into U.S. airspace in the previous year to surveil American law enforcement and security operations in the southern border region.

A senior Homeland Security official told Judicial Watch the drones are observing federal, state, county, and city agencies near the Mexican border, including the U.S. Border Patrol, Texas Department of Public Safety, Texas National Guard, county sheriffs and local police. The Border Patrol, which operates under Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has captured about a dozen of the drones, and accessed the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles’ (UAVs) guidance and memory systems to gain intelligence information, according to a high-level official at the agency.

Judicial Watch learned about the Mexican cartel drone incursions during a visit to the southern border and specifically while interviewing federal officials at the Customs and Border Protection Rio Grande Valley sector in Texas.