adminRob Finnerty was right to call out what millions of Americans already know: for four years the left and its media allies acted like the border crisis didn’t exist or, worse, treated it like a moral imperative to tolerate. Finnerty has made a career telling listeners what the mainstream press refuses to say, and his show has become a necessary counterweight to the narrative that illegal immigration is somehow beyond politics.
The facts back him up: under the Biden years America saw unprecedented border encounters and policy confusion that overwhelmed communities and judges alike. Government data and congressional briefings show millions of encounters at the southwest border in the years after 2021, with spikes around policy changes like the end of Title 42 that made the situation chaotic and costly for states and taxpayers.
At the same time, the Biden DHS rewrote rules to expand so‑called protected areas, hamstringing enforcement in places where bad actors could hide and inviting more lawlessness in the interior. That memorandum turned long‑standing common‑sense limits on enforcement into broad shields, and those policy decisions had consequences for public safety and the rule of law.
Meanwhile, when tough enforcement did occur under prior administrations, those actions were portrayed by the lefty press as cruel spectacle instead of necessary law enforcement. ICE agents have carried out nationwide operations to round up criminal and noncriminal illegal entrants alike, and those arrests—while controversial to some—are part of enforcing immigration statutes that keep Americans safe.
This is the double standard conservatives have been warning about: when enforcement is relaxed, the left and its outlets call it compassion; when federal agents do their jobs, the same people cry outrage and accuse patriots of inhumanity. Congressional Republicans and oversight committees repeatedly flagged the Biden administration’s policies as enabling chaos and shifting the burden onto border states and local taxpayers.
The new administration’s decision to restore enforcement discretion and rescind the Biden protected‑areas guidance was the right move for safety and accountability, and it underscores why America needs leaders who will put citizens first. Restoring the rule of law doesn’t mean cruelty; it means fairness for legal immigrants, respect for workers, and protection for neighborhoods tired of open‑border consequences.
Patriots know we can both honor human dignity and secure our borders, but that balance won’t happen while Democrats and their media pals look the other way. It’s time for policymakers to stop outsourcing our border to smugglers and foreign cartels, support law‑abiding enforcement, and tell the truth to the American people — because a sovereign nation must control its borders or it ceases to be a nation at all.
