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Eli Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Wayne and Marcia Busky Distinguished Fellow in history at Hillsdale College. Victor has an official website, the Blade of Perseus, that's its title, its web address is victorhanson.com, I'll tell you more about that later in the program and I will also tell you more later in the program about our sponsor today, which is field of greens, lots to talk about,

in particular on Victor's mind, so he expressed to me, as we were preparing for today, was to talk about immigration, an old topic, except as it keeps getting worse at the southern border. So we'll get Victor's views on that and topics such as, let's see, what else we have learned to practice, hand-banked and freed, Harvard trying to sidestep.

We're trying to find a way to sidestep the Supreme Court decision against affirmative action in applications and blue-dog Democrats who have turned that caucus, what's left of it, into a front for Antifa. We'll get to these topics right after these important messages.

We're back with the Victor Davis Hanson Show, so Victor, immigration is on your mind, it's always been on your mind, you are the author of Exophonia, after all, and author numerous essays on the plight of immigration and how it affects our sovereignty, etc.

But you'd like to address the recent doings at the border, Victor, tell us all of us, me, you're listening to what's on your mind.

Well, you know, we've had seven million supposed illegal entries, I don't know if that means in trance, but those are apprehensions or at least guesstimations of people crossing the border.

And we've had this heat wave that recently led up, and so we had temperatures of 110, 112, Donald Trump was liable for having quote unquote cages at the border when he tried to enforce it, even though the cages, if they're not cages.

But the facilities were built by Barack Obama, and now these people who across illegally and reside illegally are out in the hot sun, and then we've had, I think, 6,000 arrests yesterday, I'm speaking on a Sunday, so I think on Saturday, they announced six to 8,000 detentions and one day, so we're back to normal, we have all the usual characters, the Mexican government, the left, etc.

But the more I'm thinking about, I mean, we had a couple of, I think two or three child molester sexual perverts that had been arrested for pedophilia in the United States, and I thought to myself, if you have sex with a 12 or 13 or 14 year old child or preteen or early teen in the United States, you're going to send, you're going to, you're going to serve a long sentence.

And you're going to be a registered sex offender, so how could a person who committed that crime be let go and go back to Mexico or let's Latin America, and then come back in again, I don't understand it.

And this is a state where Gavin Newsom, you know, was even though he didn't follow his own cannons and never wore a mask unless there was a camera on him, but we have all these strict rules.

And yet here in California, there's no, there's no audit, there's no check, we gave 500 million dollars, the little aliens during the COVID brain here in my hometown were a drop off point, this Southern, Fresno County for people bust in and it's, it's markedly perceptible that you're seeing people that are not just arrived 20 years ago.

And they haven't bothered to address their status, I mean, you're talking about people right from Southern Mexico, and I see a lot when I fly to Fresno Airport, there's at least three flights that come into the Fresno International Airport, known proverbially as fat that come from Mexico with people getting off.

And it's just a way to come in, nobody checks them to see if they can, they're legal or not.

So my point is this, we have this mythology that illegal immigration is not, is a moral idea, just a bunch of hardworking people and they're coming here and they're trying to join the United States and they want to be citizens.

No, it's not, and the people who welcome that are the moral left and the people who oppose it are right wing racist homophobic, nativist, sexist, prejudicial racist right.

But nothing tells you more, go more made this point, when you had Eric Adams, remember him, Jack, when he was out at the buses shaking hands of the migrants and same thing with Martha's vineyard people when they first arrived.

And for the photo op, and now they're just inundated of Martha's vineyard, I mean, these wealthy white people got rid of them very quickly.

It's like, no, we're not going to do the Salma or Danyuba or Ridley or Fresno, what you're not going to do that here.

You're not going to make, you're not going to have El Paso, we support what's going on in El Paso, we dreamed that thing up.

We like open borders, but it's for you, not us. So nobody's coming in, who's illegal to Martha's vineyard, unless he's going to be by himself male and a cook.

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