Rick Leventhal’s appearance as guest host on Newsmax’s Finnerty has sharpened a debate many Americans are already having about the cost of open-border policies. On the Friday segment he didn’t mince words, arguing that the current Biden-Harris approach to immigration has tangible and tragic consequences and that tougher vetting is the bare minimum needed to protect communities.
Conservative commentators across the country have echoed that same moral outrage, bluntly accusing the Biden-Harris team of having “blood on their hands” after a string of violent crimes tied to illegal entrants and policy failures. Those words are no mere slogan; they are the anger of parents, first responders, and local leaders who watch preventable tragedies unfold while the federal government shrugs.
The facts that fuel that fury are ugly and avoidable: reports of hundreds of thousands of unaccounted-for migrant children and systemic breakdowns in sponsor vetting have surfaced under this administration, prompting calls for accountability and overhaul. Conservatives are right to demand transparency and immediate reforms to end the human trafficking and exploitation enabled by a soft, chaotic border regime.
Americans don’t forget the human cost when headlines tell the story — cases like the brutal murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley have become rallying points for those who say lax policies led to needless loss. When families grieve and communities live in fear, the question is simple: who in Washington will stand up for real enforcement, thorough vetting, and the rule of law?
This is not about politics for politics’ sake; it’s about restoring the first duty of government — protecting citizens. Stricter vetting, expanded cooperation with trusted allies on background checks, and finishing the detention-and-deportation reforms the country needs are commonsense steps that Democrats refuse to champion. The result has been predictable: law-abiding Americans pay the price while the cartel economy and bad actors exploit loopholes.
Conservatives must keep pressing the point no matter how the left spins it: sovereignty and safety are not optional, and compassion without competence becomes cruelty. Lawmakers who cower from enforcing immigration law should be exposed, called out, and replaced by leaders who prioritize the safety of neighborhoods over political virtue signaling.
If Washington won’t act, citizens and state officials will. Enforce the laws on the books, restore vetting that actually protects us, and stop pretending open borders are a policy rather than a crisis. The American people deserve leaders who will secure the homeland and put the safety of ordinary families above partisan cover-ups.
