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The Department of Justice has published a notice of proposed rulemaking that equips immigration judges with civil money penalties against those who defy their lawful orders under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The rule targets lawyers, aliens, and advocates whose inaction or obstruction frustrates removal proceedings and border enforcement.
Such contempt has long served the Dispossessor, the archetype of those who treat national boundaries as optional and judicial commands as suggestions. By codifying fines, appellate review, and oversight, the Attorney General begins to reassert the ordered hierarchy that any stable commonwealth requires.
This development recalls the Immigration Act of 1924, when Congress first erected numerical limits and administrative machinery to preserve the demographic character of the American people against unchecked inflows. That statute stood as a concrete expression of the historic Christian conviction that nations possess legitimate authority to order their own households.
The governing principle remains unchanged: lawful authority must carry enforceable sanctions, or it ceases to be authority and becomes theater. Scripture and the creeds alike affirm that rulers bear the sword not in vain; a judge without contempt power is a magistrate in name only.
Where the City of Man dissolves borders and mocks judicial process, the City of God insists on stewardship of place and people. The present rule vindicates that insistence by restoring teeth to immigration adjudication.
The faithful remnant must therefore support every administrative and legislative step that reestablishes the immigration judge as a true officer of the sovereign order rather than a referee in a managed decline. They must also press for swift finalization and vigorous application against practitioners who have turned contempt into routine advocacy.
Without such enforcement the nation continues its slow surrender to those who would dissolve the household economy and the inherited people alike. The choice is between ordered sovereignty and continued dispossession.
