A Department of Homeland Security employee is dead. Murdered. And the person who killed her? A naturalized citizen that DHS itself approved for citizenship — despite a criminal record that should have disqualified him from ever getting within a hundred miles of a U.S. passport.

You really cannot make this any more tragically ironic if you tried.

The victim was a DHS official — someone who worked for the very agency responsible for vetting immigrants and approving citizenship applications. She was walking her dog when she was brutally attacked and killed by a man who had a documented criminal history BEFORE he was granted citizenship. Not after. Before.

So somewhere in the bowels of Biden’s Department of Homeland Security, somebody reviewed this guy’s application, saw his criminal record, and stamped “APPROVED” on it anyway. Then they went to lunch. Then their colleague ended up dead.

We need to understand what happened here because the Biden administration spent four years telling us the vetting process was “rigorous” and “thorough.” They told us that every applicant goes through extensive background checks. They told us the system works.

The system worked so well that it approved a violent criminal for citizenship and he murdered one of their own employees.

Under Biden, DHS was run by Alejandro Mayorkas — a man who was literally impeached by the House for his refusal to enforce immigration law. This was a department that was so focused on processing as many applications as possible, so consumed with hitting diversity targets and rolling out the welcome mat, that basic public safety checks apparently became optional.

Think about the insanity of this for a second. We have a naturalization process that is SUPPOSED to screen out people with violent criminal histories. That’s not some far-right wish list item. That’s the bare minimum. “Hey, before we make you a citizen, let’s check if you have a history of violent crime.” This isn’t controversial. This is Tuesday.

But Biden’s DHS couldn’t even manage that. They were too busy flying hundreds of thousands of migrants into the country on their secret parole program, too busy losing track of 300,000 unaccompanied minors, too busy telling Congress that the border was “secure” while millions of people walked across it.

And now a woman is dead.

The suspect had prior criminal charges that should have been an automatic red flag in any competent vetting system. In a functioning agency, his application would have been flagged, reviewed, and denied. Instead, it sailed through.

Was anybody fired? Was the person who approved his application held accountable? Was there an internal review? Of course not. Under Biden, accountability at DHS was about as common as border enforcement — which is to say, nonexistent.

This case is a gut-punch, but it’s not an anomaly. It’s the logical outcome of a system that prioritized speed and volume over safety. When you process citizenship applications like a fast-food drive-through, eventually you’re going to hand a burger to someone who shouldn’t be in the restaurant.

(Terrible analogy, but you get the point.)

The Trump administration has already begun overhauling the vetting process at DHS, and cases like this are exactly why. When the people in charge of protecting Americans can’t even protect their own employees from the people they approved, something is catastrophically broken.

Every single citizenship application that was rubber-stamped during the Biden era needs to be reviewed. Every one. If this guy got through with a criminal record, how many others did? Dozens? Hundreds? Thousands? Nobody knows, because Biden’s DHS didn’t bother to keep track.

This woman went to work every day at the Department of Homeland Security. She believed in the mission. She trusted that her agency was doing its job. And then a man that her own agency approved for citizenship killed her.

That’s not a bureaucratic failure. That’s a betrayal. And everyone who ran DHS under Biden should have to answer for it.