I'm John that's who with Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institution, the professor is a classicist,

writing most recently The Dying Citizen, how how progressive elites tribalism and

globalization are destroying the idea of America. It is obvious that the Roman Empire

was the first iteration of globalization. We are several more advanced from that

but it's surprising how the pattern repeats itself. Borders. Let's do some history

here. In 1965 the Heart Cellar Act rethinking immigration into

America, migration into America, people who came to America for either to

send remittance his home or to resettle without going

through the ordinary process of applying for U.S. citizenship.

You're right that that was, that it is now regarded, not you, you report that it is now regarded not you you report that it is now regarded one of the most if

not the most thoughtless of the great society how so how did it change things it

destroyed the whole idea of meritocracy it definable skill or some capital or some fluency with English, it doesn't matter anymore.

We're going to privilege family relationships and to be frank proximity to the border and it was done in an unholy

alliance from the Ted Kennedy wing of the Democratic Party and the corporate

wing of the Republican Party and they basically said

corporation said we need cheap labor not just for agriculture

which now is only 20% of illegal labor, but meat packing, hospitality, restaurants,

hotels, etc.

And we're willing to open the borders to get cheap labor and then the left said

we want new constituents because our

agenda basically is no longer appealing to 51% of the people. So we brought in

since that act about 50 million people and we have now a

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