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Victor Davis Hanson: Biden’s Border Blowup
American Greatness ^ | 21 Mar, 2024 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/21/2024 7:24:46 AM PDT by MtnClimber

In the last four years, the Biden administration has violated every historical canon critical to ensuring legal immigration enriches the United States.

Some 8 to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since Joe Biden took office.

A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying they first needed legal sanction: “We immediately surge to the border all those seeking asylum.”

In contrast, we know legal immigration is America’s great strength, but it has always depended on a few key prerequisites.

Immigration must be legal and measured.

Why? Because only the host nation can adjudicate how many immigrants it can successfully accept and assimilate. It has no desire to encourage Balkanized tribalism so common in nations abroad torn apart by ethnic conflict.

America must have some knowledge of the background of immigrants, especially whether they have criminal records, belong to gangs, are importing drugs, carry infectious diseases, or can be self-supporting.

By contrast, if the first thing immigrants do is illegally cross the American border, and the second is to reside illegally in America, and the third is to obtain fraudulent identification to mask that illegality, then they will establish long patterns of illegal behavior and disrespect for their hosts.

In addition, immigration should be diverse so that large ethnic groups do not form permanent tribal sects in the fashion of the Balkans, the Middle East, or Latin America.

Ideally, the host should prefer immigrants who have some knowledge of the language and customs of the United States. And they should have some ability to be self-supporting so as not to burden American taxpayers or overtax and deprive social services from poorer U.S. citizens.

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To: Fledermaus

Expired?


21 posted on 03/21/2024 2:34:03 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

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22 posted on 03/21/2024 2:47:23 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: MtnClimber
That is the long and short of the communist democrat Biden administration deliberately wiping out our boarders. Americans did not vote, or consent, for this treasonous invasion of this Republic. Donald Trump is the last sane American with sufficient clout and patriotism who can overcome this massive treason that will destroy America with just one more stolen election.
23 posted on 03/21/2024 3:07:44 PM PDT by mountainfolk (q)
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To: Taxman

ping


24 posted on 03/21/2024 8:03:38 PM PDT by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: DesertRhino
3 of the 4 judges in Trump cases are immigrants from Columbia, Pakistan and Jamaica.

Current cases? McAfee and Engoron are not from Pakistan, although I'm not sure what nation (or planet) Engoron is aligned with.

25 posted on 03/21/2024 8:59:50 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Judge Juan Merchan is from Columbia. (E Jean Carroll case)
Chutkin is from Jamaica.
Judge Amit P. Mehta (Indian muslim, not Paki) Engorgon was born in New York.

And then there are the federal prosecutors. Lots of people born in other countries are pushing this.

It’s a matter of time till we have an immigrant on the Supreme Court. Nothing in the law prevents it. They are taking over and they hate America as it was.


26 posted on 03/21/2024 11:21:49 PM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2024... RETURN OF THE JEDI. )
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To: DesertRhino

Which Trump case is assigned to Mehta?


27 posted on 03/21/2024 11:31:51 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: DesertRhino

China has an enormous surplus of males due to their one child policy. The large number of Chinese military age males coming across our southern border is very worrisome.


28 posted on 03/22/2024 5:18:10 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: texas booster

I’d like ON the VDH


29 posted on 04/04/2024 9:03:23 AM PDT by Savonarola (Savonarola)
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