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Immigration Gone Wild, by Victor Davis Hanson – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Immigration Gone Wild, by Victor Davis Hanson

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"Immigration Gone Wild". Image by Grok.

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, December 8, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness and the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He is an American military historian, columnist, a former classics professor, and scholar of ancient warfare.

A border abandoned and laws ignored have turned public frustration into a sweeping backlash that now threatens even legal immigration.

It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.

Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations and no real ICE kinetic activity beyond the border.

The world’s poor, sick, both law-abiding and criminal, young and old, understood that anyone could now enter the U.S. at will. Deterrence and legality were lost.

In its place, the message went out that if it was permissible to cross the border unlawfully, then, by extension, it would be seen as equally fine to reside illegally as well—and perhaps further to ignore laws, on the theory that the host had sanctioned all such exemptions. …

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Immigration Gone Wild, by Victor Davis Hanson

Ven. Fulton Sheen on the Double Meaning of the Most Sacred Words of the Mass, by Matthew Becklo

New Children’s Book Tells Kids Killing Babies in Abortions is Awesome, by Ashlynn Lemos

By Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, December 8, 2025

A border abandoned and laws ignored have turned public frustration into a sweeping backlash that now threatens even legal immigration.

It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals. No one believes that was wise or should ever be repeated.

Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations and no real ICE kinetic activity beyond the border.

The world’s poor, sick, both law-abiding and criminal, young and old, understood that anyone could now enter the U.S. at will. Deterrence and legality were lost.

In its place, the message went out that if it was permissible to cross the border unlawfully, then, by extension, it would be seen as equally fine to reside illegally as well—and perhaps further to ignore laws, on the theory that the host had sanctioned all such exemptions. …

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