Terrific: Federal judges have blocked hundreds of thousands of illegal alien deportation orders

I guess it's a good news/bad news story. Despite the determination of the president to never deport an illegal alien, since they're all prospective Democrat voters, there are still some people in the Department of Homeland Security who take their jobs seriously and issue hundreds of thousands of deportation orders each year. That's the good news. The bad news? Even if Obama doesn't stop them from doing their jobs, apparently there are plenty of federal judges who will. Some excellent reporting from FoxNews.com shows that over the past who years, more than 200,000 would-be deportations were halted by judges after DHS had issued the orders:

Over the last 10 months, immigration judges opted against the department’s efforts to remove some 96,223 illegal immigrants, including criminals, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, a Syracuse University-based nonprofit. At this rate, TRAC estimates the number of illegal immigrants allowed to remain in the U.S. despite DHS attempts to remove them will surpass last year’s breaking number of 106,676. With the court’s protection, subjects can often remain indefinitely. “It’s concerning to me that the immigration courts are becoming such a frequently used back-door route to green cards,” said Jessica Vaughan, director of Policy Studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, DC-based research institute, noting these cases will be nearly 10 percent of the green cards approved in 2016. “Many of them arrived illegally, and are being awarded legal status simply because they managed to stay a long time and have acquired family members here.”

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These judges basically take the same philosphy as Obama toward the presence of illegals, including those who are known to be involved with criminal activity: It's more egregious to uproot a family than it is to let 12 million illegal aliens overrun a nation, commit crimes, get on the public dole and undercut the cost of labor. It's funny: Left-wingers constantly complain that wages in this country haven't kept up with productivity. What impact do they think it has when you let 12 million people into the country illegally, working for less than the market value of labor and driving down the overall wage average? People make higher wages when the can deliver more value to employers via their labor, and thus create demand for themselves. Flooding the labor market with millions of low-cost laborers makes it harder to maintain that high demand for labor, because you've introduced all kinds of new supply that can be had for cut rates. But it also undermines the rule of law when even a reasonable showing of illegality can't get someone deported because they can find a friendly judge who will let them stay. I believe that, in many cases, individual illegals are doing no harm by being here. But the law is the law, and when the courts are systematically undermining the law on the one hand while the president does the same, then law means nothing and no one should fear any consequence for breaking it. That's where we've come to as a nation. Presidential nominees can break the law with impunity. So can people who aren't even supposed to be here. God help you if you break the law and actually get prosecuted. What a sucker you are. In today's America, that's damn near impossible.