Donald Trump’s immigration agenda has forced a reckoning with the decisive political issue of our time: America’s artificially changing demographics. Trump is like America’s general in a war being waged every day in the press and in the courts. On the other side of this conflict are the Democrats, who have a vested interest in carrying out what appears to be a coup against the dwindling white majority which no longer appreciates their style of political manipulation, a media that provides necessary sob stories to distract from this coup, and arrogant judges who offer faux legitimacy to it from the bench. Indeed, the commitment of some of these judges runs so deep that they are willing to tempt jail for the cause, as we have recently seen.

Until recently, when the people first elected Trump in protest of politicians long ignoring their wishes, the battle had been nearly one-sided. Trump began by throwing out the moronic elite consensus that treated every Third World peasant as though he were a budding rocket scientist. Now, Trump is taking the next step by targeting a tendentious idea of “due process” that has been weaponized against America and its people.

Liberals say Trump is ignoring the “rule of law,” but where immigration is concerned, the law has been absent for 20 years or longer. Pretextual “asylum” cases have backlogged the immigration courts (which are not actual courts, but subdivisions of the executive branch), depriving the American people of their rights. Our courts, our media, and many of our politicians, having slept soundly through this invasion, now demand scrupulous adherence to bureaucratic procedure from Trump as he tries to reverse it. Otherwise, they say, we are forsaking our highest principles as Americans, perhaps even flirting with authoritarianism.

As Trump has pointed out, with his a common sense that transcends the noise, America’s immigration system has long operated according to a ridiculous double standard: Until recently it has been much easier for aliens to smuggle themselves across our borders than it is to send them back. In the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, it took six years, from the time of his arrest, to remove this self-avowed illegal alien with ties to MS-13. The real takeaway from the saccharine outcry over this “Maryland father” is that he was given an opportunity to fight his just removal, and to challenge the government’s claims about his criminal affiliation. Far from being “abducted” by the Trump administration, Abrego Garcia, like so many millions of others, received a great many chances to game the system. His time ran short on Jan. 20. Finally, he is where he belongs, in his homeland.

Trump and his top aides, such as immigration patriot Stephen Miller, have offered a compelling response to the procedural pedants attacking them: The fussy standard of “due process” demanded by the left for the millions of aliens on U.S. soil is impossible to meet, and what is more, it is being demanded in bad faith. We may grant that Abrego Garcia’s deportation was unusual because it ended with his detention in a maximum-security prison. But would his defenders ever accept an outcome whereby the majority of “asylum seekers,” who face no greater punishment than being united to their native soil, are sent back when they cannot provide simple documentation of their right to be here in this country? If not, how many years must Americans forbear to live among people who have no legal right to be here permanently? For how long must we put up with this growing absurdity before we can finally assert ourrights as citizens and say that these people have had their day in court, and it is time for them to go home?

The answer, as many suspect, is that nothing will ever satisfy these liberals. “Due process,” like “democracy” and so many other nice words, are just fig leaves for their will to power. Finally, we have a president who sees the situation clearly and who is willing to step around the arbitrarily enforced niceties that win respect from our courts, including some of Trump’s own appointees. Take, for instance, Terry Doughty of Texas, who worked himself up into a lather over the deportation of a 2-year-old anchor baby, technically a “U.S. citizen,” to Honduras. The child was sent back with her mother, an illegal alien from that country. This is yet another contrived sob story, one which we owe, not to any cruelty by the Trump administration, but to the absurd indulgence and laxity of the current policy on birthright citizenship.

We may trust that judges—being something other than statesmen—are people not often endowed with the boldness or vision needed to deal with a political crisis like the one we now face with immigration. If that crisis is not addressed it may finally put an to the “rule of law,” and all of those Western niceties we have allowed to be exploited mercilessly by those who mean us harm, giving way to the will of the greatest number.

America’s immigration crisis is tied up in a Gordian knot which no figure, saving Trump, has shown the guts to attempt to cut. Considering the immensity of the task, the stakes involved, and the forces united against him, those of us who wish him to succeed should hold our peace, even when we doubt that he can pull it off.