The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: We Needed a New President, Not 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'

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Starting point is 00:00:25 We'd love to talk. Business. Where are we on the immigration issue? There's good news and there's bad news. The good news is that we've gone from 10,000 people entering illegally to zero. Mexico is no longer cooperating with the forces of illegal immigration. They're scared to. It's a big success.

Starting point is 00:00:45 Now here's the other part. It was legal de facto for the prior administration to systematically and unashamedly break the law by destroying the border and allowing this 10 to 12 million people to come in illegally and to reside illegally. A manipulation, a distortion, a warping of the law in a very surreal fashion, that somebody who is trying to enforce the law is considered unlawful and someone who completely made a mockery of it was considered law.

Starting point is 00:01:20 Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal. At the end of the 90-day period, where are we on the immigration issue? And there's good news and there's bad news. It's sort of like the trade and tariff issue. It's sort of like the Iran denuclearization effort. It's sort of like the Ukraine war. There's a lot of good indicators, but there's not realization or finalization. And that is important because Donald Trump is polling in the real clear average is about 44, 45 percent.

Starting point is 00:01:58 He's gone down some. I think the polls on the left are trying to exaggerate that average downward. But nevertheless, that reflects that everything is in suspension. And let's look at how that applies to the border. The good news is that we've gone from 10,000 people entering illegally to zero. And we've got the highest morale ever in ICE and the Border Patrol. People are ecstatic at the work they've done. Mexico is no longer cooperating with the forces of illegal immigration.

Starting point is 00:02:28 They're scared to. The wall will be continued all the way to the Gulf in some form. or the other. It's a big success. And guess what? There was no comprehensive immigration reform. Remember that kind of bogey man? We need comprehensive. No, we didn't. We just needed to exist. We just needed to enforce the laws on the books. And we've done that. Now, here's the other part. We don't know how many people were let in under Joe Biden. It may have been 10, 11, 12 million. It's hard to know whether an illegal entry always stayed here or not. But they did chart roughly how many people came in.

Starting point is 00:03:04 It was somewhere between 10 and 12 million, maybe 4,500,000 aliens. But here's the principle that the left has adopted. And I can't believe it. Maybe you can. It's surreal. It's Orwellian. And it's been reified by the district courts. In some cases, the circuit courts, and de facto by the Supreme Court because they haven't acted.

Starting point is 00:03:25 And the principle is this. It was legal de facto for the prior administration to systematically and unashamedly break the law by destroying the border and allowing this 10 to 12 million people to come in illegally and to reside illegally. The courts did not entertain any objection to that. In other words, there was a blatant destruction of the law by the chief executive. However, the corollary to that is even more disturbing. The incoming administration, who wants to rectify that abuse, in other words, it wants to enforce the law and say that you came in illegally and you shouldn't have because of the prior laxity of this government, now you've got to leave because you're still breaking the law. And they're stopping these deportations for the most part.

Starting point is 00:04:25 So the principle is it is lawful to be unlawful if you're Joe Biden, according to the courts, but it is unlawful to be lawful if you're Donald Trump. And the result is that we've got these 10 to 12 million people. Are we going to have an immigration hearing for each one of them, or are we just going to pick people? Now, Mr. Obrego-Garcia had two administrative hearings with immigration judges, and he was said to be deportable. The third one said, well, if he deport him, he might be in danger by gangs. Now, I don't think there's much of an M-13 gang in El Salvador anymore because they're all in that huge prison. So that should be nullified.

Starting point is 00:05:14 He didn't say he couldn't be deported. He just said he didn't think he could be deported to El Salvador. or they should bring him back and then deport him somewhere else. Deport him to Mexico if you want. But nobody would want him because unlike our left, they believe that he was a gang member. And by the way, we've had new information that when he was pulled over in Tennessee with eight illegal aliens with him. And I don't know why he wasn't cited. He was speeding at a high speed without a valid license.

Starting point is 00:05:42 Anybody listening right now, if you get in a car and you have eight people with no identification, and it looks like you're trafficking and you have no valid driver's license and you're breaking the speed law, you're going to go to jail. But not if you're an illegal alien trafficker. But here's the new information. The car that Mr. Abrego Garcia was driving who said he was just bringing construction workers

Starting point is 00:06:06 from Texas to Maryland. It was registered under the name of a known human trafficker who had been arrested for that. In other words, he was Mr. Garcia a trafficker. So now we have this situation where you cannot deport somebody who beat his partner, who trafficked to smuggle people in, who has gang activity and gang markings on his body and his attire, and is a citizen of El Salvador and is here illegally.

Starting point is 00:06:41 If you can't deport him, I don't know who you can report who is here illegally. So that's where we are right now. Great news on the border, but a manipulation, a distortion, a warping of the law in a very surreal fashion that somebody who is trying to enforce the law is considered unlawful. And someone who completely made a mockery of it was considered law. I'm Victor Davis Hanson for The Daily Signal. Thank you for tuning in to The Daily Signal. Please like, share, and subscribe to be notified for more confirmation. content like this. You can also check out my own website at victorhansson.com and subscribe for exclusive features in addition.

The Daily Signal - Victor Davis Hanson: We Needed a New President, Not 'Comprehensive Immigration Reform'

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