The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: The ‘Inexplicable’ Invasion on Our Southern Border

Episode Date: April 3, 2025

Say hello to your new neighbors—12 million of them.   Under the Biden Administration, illegal border crossings jumped to record numbers. Yet within 8 weeks of President Trump assuming office, border crossings plunged to the lowest in decades.   On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” VDH breaks down the step-by-step invasion on our southern border that was intricately planned and encouraged by Democrats.   “Never in the history of the United States, within four years, did the government, by intent, destroy the border, and welcome in 12 million people.”   Meanwhile, Americans needed proof of vaccination or faced being fired from their jobs.   “I suppose they thought that maybe people who were coming in without English, without high school diplomas, for the most part, without capital, and without skills would be dependent on federal charges.” 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/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk, business. Now that we've seen in the first eight weeks of the Trump administration, a 96% reduction in illegal entries across the southern border, and this was done, remember, without the supposed need for comprehensive, quote-unquote, immigration reform, it's logical to ask what the last four years were about. I don't have the answer. I don't know what was behind it, but I do know that never in the history of the United States within four years did the government, by intent, destroy the government.

border and welcome in 12 million people during a first year of a COVID lockdown where all of us had to be very careful wear masks and have proof of vaccination with no audit of all of people who were not here. It's inexplicable. Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal. Now that we've seen in the first eight weeks of the Trump administration, a 96th, percent reduction in illegal entries across the southern border. And this was done, remember, without the supposed need for comprehensive quote-unquote immigration reform.

It's logical to ask what the last four years were about. Why did we have a completely open border? Why did 12 million people come into the United States from all over the world under illegal auspices? What was the reason? Why would people do that? And remember, right now, the United States has somewhere between 50 and 60 million residents that were not born in the United States. 27% of the population of California is foreign-born, of all statuses. Citizen, legal, illegal. That's an enormous challenge in assimilation, acculturation, integration. And we're not doing that, of course. But why would we do that? Why would we have 16% now of? of the population of the United States is foreign-born? What was the rationale behind that,

especially in the context of illegal entries? Looking back, what were the Democrats? What was Biden? What were the handlers of Biden thinking? I suppose they thought that maybe people who were coming in without English, without high school diplomas for the most part, without capital and without skills,

would be dependent on federal large assets. I know you're going to say, well, people who are not here legally, cannot get Medicaid. Well, they can get Medicaid in emergency. In California, anybody can get Medicaid, which we hear call Medi-Cal. So many people came in illegally and got on Medi-Cal that the system is broke. It's $6.7 billion in the whole. 50% of the population of all births are on Medi-Cal. And 40% of the California resident population are on Medi-Cal. So it was the idea to get people depended on the government, and then that would make government grow and more redistribution

and more higher taxes, a way of, what, having equity, taking from this small, supposed greedy elite and making them pay higher taxes to fund this social welfare. Or was that utopianism, globalism, 21st centuryism, end-of-the-worldism, in which you think that borders are a 19th century construct. We're all people of the same planet, as we see in Europe. So let's just get rid of borders. Let's make it everything from Yucatan to the Arctic Circle. We can just go anywhere we want in this utopian dream. There's no difference.

Why is somebody who was born in Chiapas or Wahaka or Micho Khan to dire poverty and cartels and corruption? Why doesn't he get the chance of somebody who's born in Malibu? Well, as social architects, maybe the left thought he should have the chance. So we'll just destroy the border. Or a third reason why was it most... more sinister? Do they think that after 2020, when the majority of states changed the balling laws to such a degree that earlier mail-in and early voting had only constituted 30% of those who voted. Seventy percent voted on election day. Now, 70% of all American voters

do not vote on election day. They don't go before somebody and show a driver's license. Did they think under this system they could bring in 12 million people, and in some cases they could vote? Now, that's a very controversial topic. The left says that they never do vote. I'm not suggesting that they do in numbers. Although I will suggest that although it's illegal at the state, most states, but it's absolutely illegal at the federal level. 16 local jurisdictions allow illegal aliens to vote in city council, school board elections, local referendum. It's a trend that the left is trying to cultivate in mind.

So do they think that eventually the more people you bring in, so you have 50 or 60 million people who were not born in the United States, they're going to be a constituency in equity being what it is and parity being, they deserve to vote. Was that the long-term goal? Or was it a fourth reason, just simple nihilism, chaos? People were angry at the Trump years, or they were angry at traditional America.

They think it's racist and sexes. It doesn't provide diversity or equity and inclusion. So what we're going to do is just flood the zone. 12 million people. We'll see how you like it. We're going to put them in hotels in New York. We're going to send them to the inner city. We're not going to send them to Malibu or Martha's Vineyard or Nantucket.

But we're just going to flood the zone and just make so much chaos that you'll have to deal with it. Sort of like California. Deal with it. I don't have the answer. I don't know what was behind it, but I do know that never in the history of the United States, within four years, did the government, by intent, destroy the border, welcoming 12 million people during a first year of a COVID lockdown where all of us had to be very careful, wear masks and have proof of a vaccination,

with no audit of all of people who are not here. It's inexplicable, and it's so inexplicable that I'm going to end today with, I don't have any answers other than providing the possible choices and alternatives I outline. Thank you very much. This is Victor Davis-Hanson for the Daily Signal. Thank you for watching today's podcast. And for more news like that, subscribe to the Daily Signal. Maybe you can check out my own website at Victorhansson.com for podcast, lectures, ultra-series behind a paywall, but more importantly, just daily columns that are accessible and free to everyone. Thank you very much.