The Washington Post Would Rather Protect Criminals Than Your Kids

The Washington Post just published what they think is a scandal. Turns out the Trump administration spent $410 million using a refugee bureau to help deport people who aren’t supposed to be here. The horror, right?

Let me say this plainly. If someone breaks into your house, you call the police. If your tenant stops paying rent, you evict them. These aren’t complicated moral questions. They’re basic property rights that every functioning society recognizes. So why is it that when a foreigner enters a country illegally and loses their court case, we’re supposed to act like removing them is some kind of atrocity?

The Post’s reporting relies on leaked documents from State Department employees who clearly can’t stand the idea that immigration law should actually be enforced. These career bureaucrats, overwhelmingly Democratic in their voting habits, have decided their personal feelings matter more than the law. They’re scandalized that America is negotiating with third countries to accept deportees whose home nations refuse to take them back. The article drips with sympathy for aliens facing “inhumane” treatment abroad.

You know what gets zero sympathy in their reporting? The victims.

Let’s talk about Lola Daviet. She was twelve years old when an Algerian woman named Dahbia Benkired murdered her in France in 2022. Benkired had been ordered to leave the country but wasn’t deported. Lola would be alive today if France had enforced its immigration laws.

Or how about Philippine Le Noir de Carlan? She was nineteen, a student with her whole life ahead of her, when Taha Qualidat killed her in a Paris park in 2024. He was Moroccan. He’d been convicted of rape in 2019 and ordered deported. Never happened. So Philippine paid the price for bureaucratic failure and misplaced compassion.

In Germany, a Syrian man named Issa al Hasan stabbed three people to death at a festival celebrating a town’s 650th anniversary. His asylum claim had been rejected a full year before the attack. Still walking around free.

These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re a pattern stretching across the Western world wherever governments have decided that enforcing immigration law is somehow beneath their dignity. The elite media complex has convinced itself that there’s something noble about not deporting people, even when they’ve committed serious crimes or exhausted every legal avenue to stay.

Here’s what really gets me. The Post has endorsed the Democratic candidate in every presidential election from Carter through Biden. Their news coverage isn’t journalism anymore. It’s advocacy dressed up with fancy Washington bylines. They’ve picked a side, and that side consistently prioritizes the interests of people who shouldn’t be here over citizens who have every right to expect their government will protect them.

The paper is horrified that America uses money and incentives to convince other countries to accept deportees. But what’s the alternative? Let convicted criminals and failed asylum seekers remain here indefinitely because their home countries won’t cooperate? That’s not compassion. That’s abandoning your responsibility to your own people.

In Britain, a Pakistani man named Shabir Ahmed was convicted of 30 sexual offenses against girls as young as twelve. He got 22 years in prison, but the real question is why he was still in the country in the first place. These failures compound. One bad decision by an immigration bureaucrat, one judge who gets squeamish about enforcement, one politician who cares more about international opinion than public safety, and innocent people die.

The Washington Post wants you to believe the real scandal is that we’re spending money to remove people who lost their cases. I’m telling you the real scandal is that we’re even having this conversation. When did basic sovereignty become controversial?

Every nation has the right to decide who gets to live within its borders. That’s not cruelty. That’s the foundation of citizenship itself. And when legacy newspapers start treating enforcement as the problem rather than the solution, they’re not speaking truth to power. They’re providing cover for a system that’s failing the people it’s supposed to serve.