I tracked down the clip described in that headline and could not find any reputable news outlet or original source confirming the exact footage or the woman’s identity, though the scene the uploader paints fits into a larger, very real pattern of chaotic deportation operations this year. What is verifiable is that the federal government has carried out large, controversial deportation flights to El Salvador and elsewhere that sparked outrage over treatment and transparency.

Let me be clear: no compassionate, free country can tolerate the steady erosion of its borders and the idea that being here illegally for years is an excuse to ignore the law. Americans who play by the rules—pay taxes, serve in the community and follow the legal path to citizenship—have every right to expect their government to enforce the law fairly and decisively. The federal regulations do allow for voluntary departure options, but that is not the same as an across-the-board cash-and-free-flight giveaway, and it is right to expect officials to insist on orderly, legal exits when removal is required.

What we do know from multiple investigations is grim: in mid-March a series of deportation flights carried hundreds of people to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison, and witnesses and deportees have described heavy restraints, rough handling and people being dragged off planes. Those are the images that made Americans angry—because enforcement without transparency becomes abuse, and because families and taxpayers deserve to know who is being removed and why.

At the same time, the government has admitted administrative errors in at least one high-profile case where a man who should not have been removed was put on a flight and ended up in a foreign prison, prompting lawsuits and questions about competence. If the administration is going to carry out forceful removals, it must also be meticulous and accountable—mistakes that strand people abroad and break up families are not law-and-order, they are malpractice.

Patriots do not oppose enforcement; we demand it be done in a way that protects Americans and respects due process. It is understandable—and right—for a president to push to regain control of the border and compel return of non-citizens who have broken the law, but that authority must not be handed off to foreign jails without ironclad evidence and oversight, nor should U.S. taxpayers be on the hook for secret payments that look like outsourcing our moral responsibilities. The public reporting about payments and opaque deals with foreign governments should alarm anyone who cares about sovereignty and honest government.

I dug hard for the specific viral video described and for proof of the uploader’s claim that the woman had been here since 2007 or that the administration ran a blanket program of cash-and-free-flights to entice departures, and I could not find reliable confirmation of those particulars in mainstream reporting. What I did find instead were credible, unsettling reports of mass deportation flights, shackling and mistreatment allegations, and serious legal challenges—so the broader story is corroborated even if that one clip and its exact caption remain unverified. Conservatives should welcome enforcement, insist on rigorous facts, and demand that our government stop making sloppy, secret deals or turning enforcement into spectacle.