Posted on 11/13/2025 5:39:36 AM PST by MtnClimber
Ellis Island built a nation through law and order; Biden’s border chaos dismantled it with lawlessness, division, and the greatest illegal influx in U.S. history.
Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S.—or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year.
All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams.
They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally.
With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago.
Yet Ellis Island’s successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes.
Americans will never know how many immigrants swarmed the southern border between 2021 and 2025, when Joe Biden and his impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed federal immigration law as we once knew it.
By design, they allowed between 10 and 12 million foreign nationals to make a mockery of federal immigration laws by swarming the southern border.
Many crossers grew violent at any sign of even meek efforts by ICE officers to enforce the law. Border Patrol officers were often mocked, threatened, and assaulted by arriving illegal aliens.
Officers were unsure as to what was worse: the occasional violence from illegal immigrants or retaliation from the Biden administration if they sought to enforce federal law and block illegal entrants.
So the Biden administration pulled off the near impossible. In a mere four years, it had invited in almost as many illegal immigrants as had entered through Ellis Island legally over seven decades.
But unlike past immigrants, we now witness organized violence against ICE officials. We see Orwellian scenes of mobs burning the American flag—the flag of the country they demand to stay in—while waving the flags of the countries
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The democRATs need more low-IQ voters.
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What the democrats did during the Biden years was absolutely unconscionable! Yet, where was the outrage?
You can see it in a very high percentage of those who have fought for this nation. Too many of those who have not take everything for granted, looking a gift horse in the mouth.
Dems have done more than anything else in history to damage the USA.
They need more votes. They don’t need someone to actually show up, just someone they can eventually register. Say via Motor Voter vote fraud.
“10 and 12 million”
Pure BS that number has been bantered around since the 80’s. More like 40 million.
“””So the Biden administration pulled off the near impossible. In a mere four years, it had invited in almost as many illegal immigrants as had entered through Ellis Island legally over seven decades.””””
So true. Biden created a problem almost too big to fix.
Removing the millions of illegals is not an easy or cheap task.
Those opposing deportation, namely the judges, politicians, and leftist agitators, are formidable.
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Personally l view any one waiving a non 🇺🇸 at an immigration event as an invader and as such should be repelled as we would any other invading army. Send them home in a box.
Democrats apparently believe it is acceptable for illegal immigrants to violate US laws relating to immigration. Are there other laws illegal immigrants can violate? Like shoplifting or thefts of cars, etc.?
💩 is to blame.
He deserves to be hanged for treason.
Apply some Ma Deuce.
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There is another difference between what happened under Biden and the past with the legal immigrants, all those that came in at Ellis Island or The other entry points like New Orleans where my parents entered, cane to be AMERICANS and be productive members of AMERICAN society. Those entering nw only come o leach off of AMERICANS while demanding they bring and keep their third world society and racism.
Victor Davis Hanson should know better than to call these illegal alien invaders “immigrants.”
My great gran mom came in through Ellis Island ... we have her itinerary list from the boat she sailed. Came over from Hungary. She was like twenty three at the time. She could read, speak and write English. She had a sponsor. Today? Meh.
Americans will never know how many immigrants swarmed the southern border between 2021 and 2025, when Joe Biden and his impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed federal immigration law as we once knew it.
The word impeached needs to be replaced with "tried and executed".
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