The shocking ambush of two National Guard members near the White House has ripped the curtain off the open-border delusion the media and the political class have been selling Americans for years. Authorities say the suspect is an Afghan national who entered the country under programs started during the chaotic 2021 evacuation, a bitter reminder that rushed humanitarian gestures cannot come at the cost of sensible vetting and public safety. This is not an abstract policy debate — it is about whether mothers and fathers can send their kids to work or school without fearing violence on the streets.
What followed should have been obvious to anyone not trapped in the New York-Los Angeles media bubble: federal agencies have had to scramble to tighten vetting and reexamine records after the attack. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced stricter checks and a review of previously issued green cards from certain countries, signaling that the old way of doing things put ideology ahead of security. If the government can’t ensure who is coming in, then it is not protecting the American people.
This moment also exposes how the dominant media narrative has been weaponized to push open borders and shame anyone who demands basic sovereignty into silence. Rob Schmitt was blunt on his program when he said the immigration narratives foisted on Americans have been insane and “driven by a completely broken media,” and he was right to name the problem. For years the press has elevated globalist talking points and sanitized policy failures instead of holding politicians accountable for the consequences of lax enforcement.
Americans are tired of career politicians and cable celebrities treating our border as a moral ornament rather than a line that protects our homeland. Conservative leaders and citizens must insist on rigorous vetting, enforced deportations for criminal aliens, and an immigration system that rewards those who follow the rules instead of rewarding the lawless. We should be compassionate to true refugees, but compassion is not handing our security over to elites who worship open borders and call dissent “fear-mongering.”
Make no mistake: this is also about accountability. Media outlets that cheered mass resettlement without demanding proper vetting, and politicians who prioritized virtue signaling and globalist prestige over American lives, must answer to voters. The only way to force change is through relentless pressure at the ballot box and unrelenting scrutiny from newsrooms that have forgotten their duty to the truth.
Patriots know what needs to be done — secure borders, transparent vetting, and a political class that puts America first, not donors or foreign agendas. If the mainstream press refuses to do its job, conservative media and everyday Americans must carry the torch and demand results. Our families, our neighborhoods, and our Republic are worth fighting for, and we will not be silenced while elites sell us out.
