The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering the Consequences

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering the Consequences    California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce basic immigration law within his state “reckless” and “chaotic”, alleging that federal officials were trying to meet an “arbitrary arrest quota.”    The Biden administration let in an estimated 12 million illegal aliens into the U.S. ICE would have to deport 8,000 illegal aliens a day to undo the damage done by the previous administration, which is not only unfeasible, but made more difficult by violent obscuration tactics employed by the Left in sanctuary cities, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words”   “…on a good day, Tom Homan and ICE and the Border Patrol can maybe deport, they find, 800. But Joe Biden let in 10 times that number per day. So, they would have to step up their efforts by a magnitude just to get back to where Joe Biden started.   If you let in 12 million people in the space of four years, you're talking about 3 million a year. You're talking 250,000 per month. So, you can see it's 8,000 a day and there's no way that that seems even feasible, even when the Left tries to obstruct that effort with sanctuary cities and district judges who entertain these lawsuits to stop it.”     👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest videos by subscribing to The Daily Signal today. You’ll be notified every time a new piece of content drops: https://www.youtube.com/dailysignal?sub_confirmation=1  👉If you can’t get enough of Victor Davis Hanson from The Daily Signal, subscribe to his official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273  👉He’s also the host of “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” available wherever you prefer to watch or listen. Links to the show and exclusive content are available on his website: https://victorhanson.com  The Daily Signal cannot continue to tell stories, like this one, without the support of our viewers: https://secured.dailysignal.com/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. Immigration is not just back in the news, it's in the news every single day. Let's put it some historical perspective. Joe Biden has a legacy and it's going to be very hard to deal with. For the next 20 years, we're going to be dealing with the fact that he and Alejandro Mallorca's deliberately, intentionally destroyed immigration law as we know it. The Trump administration is doing a heroic job to close the border.

That's not the problem now. They solve that existential problem. The problem is that you have 12 million people here that are completely unaudited. What do you do with 12 million people when you can only deport 800 or 1,000 a day? So they would have to step up their efforts by a magnitude just to get back to where Joe Biden started. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. Immigration is not just back in the news. It's in the news every single day. Almost every single day. Almost every single we see someone here illegally, like Mr. Suleiman committing an act of terror when he tried to burn

Jewish activists, burn them, burn Jews. We saw Mr. Obrego, who was an M-13 member and became a cause celeb when he was deported. He was a spousal abuser. He was a gang member. He was a human trafficker. I don't even want to get into the sad, tragic tale of all of these young, beautiful, vibrant women who have been killed by illegal aliens. I don't want to get into the issue that here in Fresno County, about a half of the traffic accidents, the people involved that were culpable have left the scene of the accident. So it's a real problem. And let's put it some historical perspective. Joe Biden's legacy will be very, he has a legacy. and it's going to be very hard to deal with.

For the next 20 years, we're going to be dealing with the fact that he and Alejandro Mallorcas deliberately, deliberately, intentionally destroyed immigration law as we know it. They opened the border and they let in 12 million people. Keep in mind some data. The administration, the Trump administration, is doing a heroic job to close the border, but that's not the problem now. They solve that existential problem. The problem is that you have 12.

12 million people here that are completely unaudited. And this is in addition to somewhere between 10 and 20 million that we're here already prior to Biden. And on a good day, Tom Holman and ICE and the Border Patrol can maybe deport, they find 800. But Joe Biden let in 10 times that number per day. So they would have to step up their efforts by a magnitude just to get back to where Joe Biden. Biden started. If you let in 12 million people in the space of four years, you're talking about 3 million a year. You're talking to 250,000 per month. So you can see it's 8,000 a day, and there's no way that that seems even feasible, even when the left tries to obstruct that effort with sanctuary

cities and district judges who entertain these lawsuits to stop it. The other thing to remember is what was really tragic about what Joe Biden did is he privileged illegal aliens over U.S. citizens. Now, what do I mean by that? His Defense Department, it started under other Trump-era defense secretaries, but they drummed out 8,500 of some of our best soldiers because they did not trust the experimental MRNA vaccine. Many of them had had COVID and had natural immunity. Think about that. At the same time they did that, they were letting about 7 to 10,000 people a day come through with no worry about whether they were vaccinated and not. So they were telling some of our bravest soldiers, we're going to go after you and drum you out of the military if you don't get this vaccine.

But over here, we're going to let in 10,000 people, 8,000 people. We don't know who they are, but they don't have to have an accident. Take another example. We were supposed to all get some something called the real ID in 2020. It was delayed because of COVID. It was enacted, I think, on May 7th of 2025. But here's the point. For the last two years, people have had to get ready to get that ID. They can't fly. They have to have a passport or a birth certificate. They have to proof of residency in their state, you know, bills or a lease or something. It's a difficult process. You've got to go in person to the DMV. So what's my point? We were flying people in from southern Mexico to take one example, into particular airports in the United States, mostly in the southwest, but not exclusively.

And we were doing it in the dead of night. And sometimes when you went to an airport, it would say immigrants, but they were not checking anybody's ID. In other words, a person in Chiapas or Yucatan or Oax, or Mishokka could say that they were a refuge. you get on an app, you know, hit the app, get on a plane and fly to an airport at two in the morning without passport control. Think of that. That happened while most Americans, as I speak, cannot get on a flight unless they have a real super ID that has been certified and adjudicated by forms of ID in addition to your driver's license. Again, we are treating people who are breaking the law by coming here and residing here better than we are U.S. citizens.

And the wall is a wonderful thing that's continuing Donald Trump's efforts to secure the border have been wildly successful. But the problem right now is an existential one. What do you do with 12 million people when you can only deport 800 or 1,000 a day and you need to deport? If you want to solve the problem and get back to square one on January 20th of 2021, you've got I increased that by 10. Final query, why did Joe Biden do this or the people around him? What was the purpose? Was it to expand the DEI agenda? Was it to bring poor people that didn't speak English without skills or high school diplomas so they would grow the entitlement industry, have to raise taxes, redistribution? Was it nihilism? He just got angry at Trump people and he thought

this is one thing they won't like. We're just going to open the borders. Was it to change the demigraphy? So with mail in and early voting, these people could be instant constituents. Or was it just that he was mean? He was nealist. He just said, I'm going to blank this up. Or was he incompetent? Good old Joe from Scrant. I don't know the answer to that. But I do know that we're going to have to find it in the next 20 years because this is the most grievous thing of all the terrible things that happened under the Biden. This one will be his legacy, and we're going to have to live with it. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hansson 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 victorhansan.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.