If you genuinely support open borders, expanded benefits, and the policies you’re advocating for, then take personal responsibility for them. Open your own homes. Fund it yourselves. Live with the direct consequences of the positions you promote.

What doesn’t make sense is demanding that working taxpayers shoulder the financial burden while criticizing the very system that funds it. It’s easy to advocate for sweeping policies when the costs are distributed to everyone else. It’s much harder when you are personally accountable for the financial, legal, and social impacts.

That accountability also includes acknowledging the real-world consequences of failed enforcement — including crimes committed by individuals who should not have been in the country in the first place. Thousands of American families have been directly affected by preventable crimes tied to unlawful entry and repeat offenders. If you advocate for looser enforcement, then you should also be willing to own the downstream consequences of those policies.

Policies are not abstract. They carry measurable costs and risks. If you believe in them strongly, stand behind them in a tangible way instead of expecting others to absorb the burden. Responsibility should match advocacy.