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Chris Salcedo’s blunt question — whether the country will “succumb to government lawlessness” — hits a nerve because facts back the fear that Washington has lost control of the border. CBP encounter data show the inflow since 2021 has been staggering, amounting to millions of interactions and a scale that overwhelmed local services and public patience. Americans watching this unravel want a government that secures its borders, enforces laws, and puts citizens first.
One of the administration’s most controversial maneuvers has been mass parole programs that admitted hundreds of thousands of people under special categories, effectively bypassing normal vetting channels. Congressional analyses and oversight reports document six-figure numbers of migrants processed through parole streams and mobile appointment apps, a loophole that has been exploited to move large populations into the interior. This isn’t accidental mismanagement — it’s policy-driven migration that rewards those who game the system.
Washington likes to lecture about compassion while quietly engineering systems that shift the costs of enforcement and assimilation onto states and taxpayers. Federal law does restrict many means-tested benefits to unauthorized migrants, but longstanding exceptions for refugees, parolees, asylees, and certain humanitarian categories mean significant public programs can be accessed by those admitted under these statuses. Voters should be rightly alarmed when legal exceptions are used as backdoors to subsidize mass inflows without clear national consent.
The legal and administrative tug-of-war over who qualifies for benefits and parole is accelerating, with recent regulatory rollbacks and court battles making the situation messier, not cleaner. In 2025 federal rulemaking and congressional action changed eligibility in ways that will reshape who can receive SNAP, Medicaid, and tax credits, while courts have stepped in to block abrupt terminations of certain parole protections for thousands of migrants. The patchwork of policy, rulemaking, and litigation leaves communities guessing and taxpayers on the hook.
Democrats and their allies in the media insist the answer is to shame enforcement and blame political opponents, but that posture ignores the numbers and the human cost. Independent trackers and data projects confirm the unprecedented surge in encounters and the strain on border communities and interior cities alike — not a manufactured crisis, but a consequence of policy choices and weak enforcement. If leaders refuse to defend our laws, they surrender not only control of borders but basic responsibilities to citizens.
This is about accountability, honest debate, and restoring the rule of law. Conservatives aren’t advocating cruelty; we’re demanding that immigration be orderly, legal, and sustainable — with clear vetting, secure ports of entry, and an end to policies that create incentives for illegal migration. The public deserves straightforward solutions: tighten parole authorities, close benefit loopholes that reward illegal entry, and restore meaningful interior enforcement so law-abiding Americans are no longer subsidizing chaos.
If the political class insists on deflection and victim narratives, they will find the electorate impatient and unforgiving. Citizens want leaders who will put the nation first, enforce laws without fear or favor, and stop treating the border as a political tool. Until we see that seriousness return to policy and to action, voices like Chris Salcedo’s will keep demanding the accountability that Washington has so far failed to deliver.
