Don't deny it: Biden left the border wide open and admitted 15 million unvetted illegal immigrants. Donald Trump inherited the crisis after promising to enforce immigration law if elected.

Joe Biden left the border wide open and admitted 15 million unvetted illegal immigrants. Donald Trump inherited the resulting crisis and there’s no sense in denying it. 

What’s more, Trump was only elected after promising to enforce immigration law. Which he is now doing. 

What exactly is wrong with enforcing the law? 

If so-called “sanctuary cities” would cooperate with immigration enforcement by turning over criminals and criminal suspects to the proper authorities, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

Likewise if President Joe Biden had imposed any sort of order at the U.S. border during his time in the Oval Office. Allowing the border situation to fester as he did, is it any wonder that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported over 11 million apprehensions from October 2019 to June 2024?

And those are the apprehensions.

This is what the data shows over the past 12 years.

Even dyed-in-the-wool liberals have to admit that former President Joe Biden created this situation by allowing millions of unvetted people to pour over the U.S. southern border during his presidency.

“It’s one thing that everybody realized that Joe Biden blew; he completely blew the whole situation of immigration, of illegal immigration,” even Chris Matthews was forced to admit on MSNOW last week.

“Minnesota is still a liberal town,” raged Matthews. “It’s still a sanctuary town. They’re not accepting this imposition from him, from the ICE agents. You can put all the ICE agents in the world in that country, in that city, and they’re not going to behave the way Trump people, MAGA people, want them to. They’re just not going to. They’re saying to the country, I’m going to protest, I’m going to get out in the street, and I’m going to let people know what I think about this behavior.”

“People do like the border closed,” Matthews admitted. “Good. Nobody’s complained about it. Not even Hispanic leaders are complaining about it.”

Since Trump took office, that number has dropped precipitously. February 2024 saw 140,641 people apprehended by immigration authorities. January 2025 saw 29,101. February 2025 was 8,347.

“Don’t be cruel” is a great song but a bad immigration policy, argued liberal analyst Ruy Teixeira last week.

“Consider that Democrats have been unremittingly hostile to Trump’s immigration policy since he began his second term, despite its undisputed success in completely shutting down the southern border to illegal immigration,” marvelled Teixeira. “Instead, Democrats have focused relentlessly on the question of interior enforcement — that is, the activities of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) aimed at detaining and deporting illegal immigrants currently living within the United States. The general approach has been to portray all ICE actions as essentially illegitimate, arbitrary and, well, cruel.”

“Conspicuously lacking has been any recognition that, in fact, interior enforcement against illegal immigration is an entirely legitimate law enforcement operation and that ICE is the government agency charged with these legitimate activities,” he pointed out. “Therefore, what ICE does is presumptively legitimate not illegitimate.”

One party is advocating breaking, ignoring, or flouting laws you don’t agree with. The other party is enforcing the law. 

One party is being cruel to be kind. The other is being kind to be cruel.

If Democrats are unhappy with immigration enforcement, a controlled border, and legal pathways to U.S. immigration, they should campaign on that, get elected, and change the laws.

Why do liberal cities get to ignore wholesale the laws of the U.S.? It’s creating a situation where lawlessness is being seen, more and more, as an appropriate form of political expression and protest.

Does anything give someone the right to break the law? Do we recognize any legal reason for breaking laws?

No, it doesn’t and we do not.

No political belief, no matter how deeply felt, no sincere religious feeling, no sense of entitlement — nothing excuses lawbreaking in a court of law.

And yet. The situation with illegal immigration has grown into a bitter partisan dispute.

Following the letter of the law could change all that in an instant. Democratic mayors and governors should cooperate fully with immigration and customs officers, who are only enforcing the laws We The People passed in this nation.

Don’t like it? In a democracy, we change the laws. We don’t break them.

(Contributing writer, Brooke Bell)