Biden administration forced a false choice on Americans about immigration

Economist Thomas Sowell famously observed, "There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs."Few ideas better explain America's immigration debate.

During the Biden-Harris administration, politicians, activists and much of the media often spoke as though weakening immigration enforcement came without cost. Border security was portrayed as the enemy of compassion. Anyone who questioned the consequences of illegal immigration risked being labeled anti-immigrant, xenophobic or worse.

MOM FROM VIRAL RO KHANNA DEBATE SAYS DEMS CAN'T CLAIM TO SUPPORT BOTH SECURE BORDERS AND SANCTUARY POLICIESThe American people never accepted that false choice.Neither did my parents.They immigrated legally from a developing country in the early 1960s because they believed America was a nation of opportunity built on the rule of law.

They never saw legality and compassion as competing values. They understood that one depended upon the other.AMERICA NEEDS WORKERS, BUT TRUMP'S POLICIES ARE SHARPLY CUTTING LEGAL IMMIGRATIONSince my daughter Katie was killed in January 2025, I've been told more times than I can count that advocating for stronger immigration enforcement somehow makes me anti-immigrant.

Nothing could be further from the truth.The polling tells a different story than the rhetoric. If Americans had truly become anti-immigrant, support for legal immigration would have collapsed.

It didn't. What collapsed was confidence that the government was willing to enforce the laws governing immigration.HUNDREDS OF JAILED ILLEGAL ALIENS RELEASED BACK ONTO BLUE-STATE STREETS DESPITE ICE DETAINERS, RECORDS SHOWThat distinction matters.

Katie was 20 years old when she was killed while visiting friends at the University of Illinois. According to court records, the man responsible had previously been deported before unlawfully reentering the United States in 2022 during the unprecedented surge in illegal immigration under the Biden-Harris administration. Illinois then compounded those failures throug