Watching the clip from The View, right-thinking Americans felt the same mixture of incredulity and disgust that millions of conservatives do every time network television elevates partisan comedy over common sense. Sunny Hostin actually told viewers that migrants shown in presidential press conferences should “sue the President” for defamation, a statement so divorced from reality that the studio audience went quiet in stunned silence.
President Trump’s decision to show the faces of people apprehended by ICE was deliberate and brave — he is exposing a crisis the media would rather ignore. When the facts point to a broken system where violent criminals and repeat offenders exploit porous borders, the last thing the American people need is sanctimony from a talk show host lecturing the country on empathy.
Hostin doubled down with a parade of legal-sounding claims, insisting that many detainees “don’t have criminal convictions” and even suggesting being undocumented isn’t a crime, as if that absolves lawlessness. That argument conveniently ignores the everyday victims of illegal immigration, the businesses hollowed out by cartel-driven crime, and the basic principle that sovereign nations have the right to enforce their borders.
The stunned reaction onstage and in the studio was revealing — not because the audience disagreed with the substance, but because the moment exposed how out-of-touch elite media figures are with the lived realities of American neighborhoods. Conservatives aren’t shocked by sharp rhetoric; we’re shocked by the smugness of pundits who celebrate open borders while the rest of the country pays the price. Dave Rubin and others picked up on that gasp for a reason: it signaled the disconnect between coastal opinion-makers and hardworking citizens.
If anything, this episode should harden resolve among patriots to defend law and order and to back agencies charged with protecting Americans from criminal activity at the border. The policy debate over deportations and the role of the military and National Guard in immigration enforcement is legitimate, but it’s absurd to frame enforcement as some moral failing rather than an exercise in public safety. Our leaders must stop apologizing for enforcing the law and start delivering results that keep families safe.
Americans are tired of performative outrage from daytime television and empty platitudes masquerading as legal critique. It’s time to reward politicians who put citizens first and punish a media class that treats border collapse like a punchline. The next election will decide whether we restore the rule of law or continue to watch our sovereignty be undermined while hosts like Sunny Hostin lecture the rest of us about compassion from the safety of a soundstage.
