Sunny Hostin’s attempt to correct Joe Rogan over Joe Biden’s border policies quickly became the target of ridicule. The View personality smugly claimed Rogan was wrong to describe the border as open.

Rogan condemned the Biden administration’s handling of the border in blunt terms. “It was insane to not only leave the border open but to give people instructions on how to get in and also transport them to cities and then put them up in hotels,” Joe Rogan said.

He then raised questions about what the administration hoped to accomplish through those policies. Rogan wondered whether the goal involved cheap labor or eventually gaining loyal voters by helping people enter the country.

“Was it cheap labor? Was it to turn these people into citizens and permanently voting your side because you helped them get in?” Rogan continued, directly questioning the possible political consequences of the border policies.

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His criticism of Biden was not limited to immigration. Rogan also criticized Biden’s mandatory COVID vaccine policies, adding another point of disagreement with the former president’s approach.

NEW: Joe Rogan slams Democrats for opening the border to 10 million illegal immigrants, lying about Joe Biden's cognitive decline, and COVID tyranny.

“It was insane to just not only leave the border open, but give people instructions on how to get in and also transport them to cities and then put them up in hotels.” “It seems crazy to have 10 million people of unknown origin enter into your country over a period of four years.” “Biden wasn’t the president for four years… And then they gaslit us for four years while whoever is behind the scenes, unelected, is actually running the country.” “I didn’t like the coercion. I didn’t like keeping people from flying… It was all crazy. And to me, that’s what that group stood for.” He’s not exaggerating. Biden’s CHNV parole program let in ~530,000 people, and the CBP One app scheduled 900,000+ border entries. Biden mandated COVID vaccines for federal workers, contractors, the military, and healthcare workers, tried to force them on every company with 100+ employees, and banned unvaccinated foreigners from flying into the US until May 2023. All while Democrats and the media gaslit the country, insisting Biden was mentally sharp. — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) October 14, 2026

Hostin nevertheless focused on Rogan’s description of the border under Biden. She attempted to disprove his criticism by arguing that the border could not have been open because Biden once told illegal aliens, “don’t come.”

Sunny Hostin “fact checks” Joe Rogan claiming the border was open under Biden by citing that one time years ago that Biden told illegals “don’t come”

Wow, he said “don’t come.” Guess that magically made the border closed. https://t.co/LMxBNZwrXh — Natalie Jean Beisner (@NJBeisner) October 16, 2026

That response is a humiliating failure rather than a meaningful correction. That single statement from Biden did not erase the scale of illegal border crossings during his administration.

More than 20 million illegal aliens crossed the border while Biden and his border czar, Kamala Harris, were in charge. That figure was offered as the central rebuttal to Hostin’s claim that the border was not open.

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The CBP One mobile app is evidence supporting Rogan’s broader criticism. It said the Biden administration provided the app to illegal aliens, giving them instructions for entering the United States and obtaining housing and benefits.

Rogan had specifically criticized officials for providing instructions, transportation to cities, and hotel accommodations. The CBP One app and the support offered to illegal aliens aligned with the policies he described.

Republican governors also became part of the dispute over transportation. Governors such as Abbott moved illegal aliens only to Democratic states because those states supported open border policies.

Hostin’s attempted correction did not address those specific claims about the mobile app, housing, benefits, transportation, or the total number of people who crossed. Instead, her argument centered on Biden’s isolated instruction that illegal aliens should not come.

Contrast that with the Biden years with the situation following Trump’s return to office. Illegal border crossings immediately halted after Trump was sworn into office in January 2026.

US border apprehensions during fiscal year 2026 decreased by 95% compared with the annual average under the Biden administration, according to the figures presented. That dramatic decline was cited as additional evidence against Hostin’s effort to dismiss Rogan’s open border criticism.

The exchange ultimately left Hostin’s smug intervention looking painfully thin. Rogan criticized specific practices and questioned their purpose, while Hostin answered with one Biden remark that did not address the figures, the CBP One app, transportation, housing, benefits, or the later 95% decline in apprehensions.

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