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Biden administration forced a false choice on Americans about immigration

My daughter Katie was killed because of the left's failure to protect our border

By Joe Abraham Fox News

Published July 22, 2026 9:00am EDT

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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.

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The American people never accepted that false choice.

Migrants walk on train tracks on their journey from Central America to the U.S. border., in Palenque, Chiapas state, Mexico, Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Isabel Mateos)

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........

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