The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: America’s About To Have a ‘Rendezvous’ With Europe’s Immigration Disaster

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Starting point is 00:00:31 I'd like, for the Daily Signal, I'd like to talk about immigration, legal and illegal. Under Joe Biden, we let in an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants and about 1 million legal immigrants. We're starting to see some of the consequences that happens when you don't vet people at the border. We have over the years a massive Somali expatriate population in Minnesota. Now we are learning that during the COVID period when there was not all. audits and scrutiny, as there should have been, a lot of Somali expatriates, both legal citizens and green court holders and illegal aliens ran a massive fraud against their adopted country, perhaps multi-billion. And Ilyan Omar, the self-appointed representative and the elected representative

Starting point is 00:01:19 of the Somali community, has denied anything was wrong. Tim Walts, who was governor in Minnesota, doesn't want to talk about it. But that entire community abused the hospital. hospitality that was accorded to them. Now we hear that an Afghan refugee who came in largely on vetted, they say he was militarily vetted, but that's not the same criteria for someone that we want to bring in and accord enormous generosity to give him a subsidized apartment, let him his wife and five children have access to it and subsidies with it ahead of normal U.S. citizens, and he replays that gratitude with what he drives across the country and executes a young national guardsman from West Virginia and almost fatally wounds, seriously wounds, his companion, assassinate the murders one and tries the murder of the other who's in critical condition as what, thanks for the generosity that was accorded to them. Almost daily, we hear of an illegal alien who is involved in a DUI and kills innocence on the road.

Starting point is 00:02:25 We hear about murders, and we're kind of tired of it, and we're re-examining immigration. We all understand that illegal immigration is clearly wrong. You cannot come into the country without legal authorization. And if you are here illegally, then you should return to your home. I think all Americans agree with that. They may disagree about the tactics of finding illegal immigrants. It's much easier to destroy the border and allow 10,000 people to come across a day than it is the hard work of finding them

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Starting point is 00:03:25 And then having the left champion them as if their saviors or heroes or something for breaking U.S. immigration law. But I want to get back to just a larger issue of immigration. Something is wrong with all of this because we are not inculcating immigration talking about it and the way that we used to talk it. We're talking about it in the salad bowl, not the melting pot. But we're assuming that people that come in here, when the moment they arrive, they have grievances against this country. They've been victims of oppression. We don't really audit them legally.

Starting point is 00:04:06 We don't say to them, we want you to know English. We want you to respect our laws. We want you to be acquainted with our traditions and customs and history. And we insist that you acculturate, you integrate, and you assimilate into full American citizenship. We don't do that. And so we have truck drivers who are here both legally and illegally who don't speak English. They don't read English. And yet out of our kindness or naivete or stupidity, we give them driver's license. And the result is they're killing people on American freeways. And yet we can't object because we'll feel that we're going to be illiberal. So what is

Starting point is 00:04:47 the solution? The solution is to rethink legal immigration. It should be much smaller, maybe two or 300,000, a number that we feel we can comfortably and easily assimilate. They must come in with knowledge of the English language. They should have some skill sets, so they do not become wards of the local state or federal government. And most importantly, we have to have a civic education program in K through 12 and outreach to them that explains you wanted to come to our country. We don't want to go to your country. you made the decision. You said that you wanted to give up your homeland, your customs, everything about it, and transfer across the ocean to the United States. If you wanted to do that, then we can accommodate you. But it's going to be brutal. You're going to be an American citizen first and a Somali or an Indian or a Mexican or Guatemalan. Second, you'll be fully assimilated. But don't come over here and then congregate in a community where you speak your native language and you break our laws and you feel that you can do so with impunity as if you're some

Starting point is 00:05:58 victim on a Marxist binary of victim, victimizer, oppressed, oppressor. It's not going to work. Yes, we are a nation of immigrants asterisk. We're a nation of legal immigrants whose first mission upon arrival in America was to be a better American than a native-born American. and many millions were. I don't think that is the case now. And the fault is not just with the immigrant, it's with us. We ask nothing of the immigrant. So little confidence perhaps we had in our own culture and civil evasion.

Starting point is 00:06:35 We were derelict, and it's the 11th hour. And if we don't change rapidly in our approaches to legal immigration, we're going to end up and have a rendezvous with the European disaster and tragedy. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis Hansen for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansen.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: America’s About To Have a ‘Rendezvous’ With Europe’s Immigration Disaster

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