Picture a town where, each Thanksgiving, the community gets together to organize their annual hot turkey dinners for disabled veterans and widows. They aren't working hard to make them feel good about themselves or earn plaudits from social media fans. They're doing it for one reason: It's the right thing to do.

Knocking on doors, leaving meals on tables inside drafty homes where heaters barely work, Meals on Wheels drivers brave ice roads and rough neighborhoods. They aren't carrying cameras, just food wrapped in aluminum foil, keeping their hearts full and their hands warm.

This is America at her best. Taking care of her own while honoring its promise to those who served our country.

Now, we move to a different picture. Burritos instead of turkey dinners. Instead of volunteers doing the right thing, we see local activists. Doorsteps don't belong to any senior citizen or veteran but evadees: Illegal immigrants hiding from ICE enforcement.

Making themselves heroes in their own minds, these activists create hotlines to evade ICE's reach and share their drop-offs during livestreams, cheering their open defiance as if they're working towards a championship.

Only in red California, it's celebrated.

Meanwhile, we're left to wonder if the law means anything anymore.

Remember that Meals on Wheels is a national, nonpartisan nonprofit providing about 221 million meals each year to 2.2 million seniors across the country. People receiving those meals aren't border-jumping criminals; they are just Americans. Veterans, widows, and diabetics who are isolated because they have no family.

Because of the charity of neighbors, they're given reliably hot, nutritious meals by drivers who politely knock, don't bring cameras, and don't find resist posters plastered all over.

The Solidarity Network, along with Hearts Against Fear, is coordinating food deliveries across Southern California. These deliveries aren't for the elderly or veterans but for people who broke the law and are actively hiding from law enforcement. According to Palabra’s report, these volunteers bring meals, bottled water, and “wellness checks” to illegal aliens who fear ICE may knock. But instead of cooperating with federal authorities, they’re undermining them while patting themselves on the back.

Meals on Wheels delivers meals. These people deliver defiance.

Nowhere in the press coverage is there a question about how veterans are doing. No mention of the elderly waiting for their insulin while activist groups deliver soup to people who snuck across the border at 2:00 AM with a cartel coyote. No feature story on the mom who was denied SNAP assistance because she earned $23 too much the previous month. They don’t get solidarity.

But the illegal alien who blew off a court date? He gets a full plate and moral applause.

Let’s make something brutally clear: these are not “migrants.” Not “neighbors.” Not “undocumented.” These are illegal entrants. Foreign nationals who knowingly crossed into our country in violation of federal immigration law. Their very presence is a crime. 

Let’s stop pretending otherwise.

Yet, look at the language used by corporate media, Hollywood influencers, and blue-check activists on X. The same crowd that can’t say “illegal” without clutching their pearls also can’t stop saying “patriotic” when describing people actively interfering with federal operations. 

They’ve redefined compassion so thoroughly that helping a criminal dodge consequences is now the moral high ground.

Where were these folks when veterans were dying on VA waitlists? When did small-town fire departments go unfunded? When elderly Americans went three days without a meal in a heatwave?

They weren’t delivering.

They were too busy feeding felons and calling it love.

Let’s take a look at 8 U.S. Code § 1324. It spells it out: Anyone who “conceals, harbors, or shields” an illegal alien is committing a felony. It’s not vague. It’s not confusing. 

It’s law.

Yet the groups in L.A. aren’t just breaking this law. They’re advertising it. Flyers, Instagram stories, TikToks, donations, and organized distribution lists. They’re proud. Loud. And completely untouched by local prosecutors or the media.

In Milwaukee, a local judge took action to hide an illegal and thought she was above the law. She found out the hard way she wasn't.

But in California, district attorneys refuse to enforce the law. No cease-and-desist. No investigation. Just anticipated applause.

Meanwhile, honest citizens are bogged down in red tape. Veterans wait months for dental referrals. Homeless Americans stand in soup kitchen lines, hoping there’s enough left. Does Hearts Against Fear show up there? Do they run food to tent cities? If so, where’s the footage?

It’s a telling omission.

Their compassion has coordinates, and it doesn’t include Americans.

Palabra quotes one illegal recipient saying ICE’s presence “felt like being stabbed in the throat.” Do you know who else feels stabbed in the throat? A widow in Fresno when her Meals on Wheels is late. A small business owner in Altoona, Wisc. buried under code enforcement. A veteran who served in Afghanistan gets denied care at the VA because “the system’s overwhelmed.”

Nobody delivers care packages to those people.

Nobody documents their fear or tells their story with candlelight and piano music.

Because compassion in California has become a form of performance art.

It has to be dramatic. It has to be defiant. And it sure as hell has to involve an illegal alien.

Most of our country no longer rewards responsibility. Those areas now throw parades for defiance. California has made a choice: to feed lawbreakers and ignore its citizens.

And the rest of us? We're told to go to hell as we foot the bill.

We used to say, “No one is above the law.” Now we say, “No one is above the law unless they’re politically useful.”

Veterans don’t get burritos. Homeless citizens don’t get solidarity hashtags. Law-abiding immigrants don’t get wellness visits. But illegal aliens? They get everything. Food. Legal aid. Applause.

And we’re supposed to smile and call that justice.

No.

Call it what it is.

Feeding criminals while citizens go hungry isn’t a virtue. It’s betrayal.

And every person clapping for it should be ashamed.

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