The latest segment on American Agenda pulled back the curtain on Democratic border posturing and exposed a truth the mainstream media will ignore: this sudden outrage at ICE and enforcement is political theater, not principle. Bob Brooks walked viewers through how the party that once voted for walls and tough deportation laws now pretends those tools are illegitimate.
You don’t have to squint to find the receipts — in 2006 Congress passed the Secure Fence Act with overwhelming bipartisan support, and dozens of Democrats voted for it alongside Republicans. That vote wasn’t some secret; it was a public, bipartisan demand for tangible barriers and enforcement that Democrats supported at the time. The contrast between that record and today’s performative outrage is striking.
Go back further and you find the same pattern: Democrats in the Clinton years signed sweeping immigration enforcement measures that expanded removal authority and detention, reshaping our immigration system into one that prioritized deportations and tougher controls. Those 1996 laws altered the landscape, creating new fast-track removal authorities and expanding the kinds of offenses that could trigger deportation. If enforcement was good enough then, why is it suddenly unforgivable now?
The Obama administration also leaned hard on enforcement, racking up removal numbers that critics dubbed “Deporter-in-Chief” as DHS programs focused on interior enforcement and criminal aliens. Those are not Republican myths — they are historical facts about how administrations of both parties have used the tools of the federal government to control the border. Political convenience, not consistency, explains the modern left’s selective memory.
Meanwhile, the modern progressive wing has moved from pragmatic enforcement to slogans like “abolish ICE,” a shift that the party’s activists and some elected officials have embraced openly. That turn reveals the calculation: when the political winds change, so do the positions, even on issues of law, order, and national sovereignty. Whatever the motive, voters deserve honesty, not a two-faced approach to enforcement.
Conservatives have every right to call out this hypocrisy and demand consistent policy — not posturing. If Democrats really cared about secure borders, they would admit their own past votes and work in good faith on solutions that respect the rule of law and the safety of American communities instead of weaponizing enforcement as a political cudgel. The country deserves leaders who stand for secure borders year-round, not just when it suits their campaign calendar.
