The courts are reeling because ICE has finally started enforcing immigration law against long-term illegal residents, shattering the fiction that enforcement was impossible. This crackdown matters because it reveals how years of deliberate non-enforcement turned federal courts into emergency rooms for lawbreakers rather than guardians of the Constitution. The Framers assigned immigration control to the national government as a core sovereign power, not a discretionary favor subject to endless judicial second-guessing. When detention proceedings multiply, the real problem lies in decades of ignored statutes and porous borders, not in the executive branch carrying out its duty. Limited government demands that laws on the books actually bind conduct; selective nullification by activist litigation erodes that foundation. Restoring order begins with accepting that sovereignty is not optional.