Victor Davis Hanson: America’s About To Have a ‘Rendezvous’ With Europe’s Immigration Disaster

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

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“Yes, we are a nation of immigrants.* “*We're a nation of legal immigrants whose first mission upon arrival in America was to be a better American than a native-born American. And many millions were. I don't think that is the case now, and the fault is not just with the immigrant, it's with us,” argues Victor Davis Hanson, following a string of high-profile, immigrant-related crimes, such as the brutal shooting of two National Guardsmen blocks away from the White House and a billion-dollar fraud scheme amongst the Somali diaspora in Minneapolis, on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest short 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 Also on Spotify: https://megaphone.link/THEDAILYSIGNAL9753340027 👉Want more VDH? Watch Victor’s weekly, hour-long podcast, “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” now! Subscribe to his YouTube channel, and enable notifications: https://www.youtube.com/@victordavishanson7273?sub_confirmation=1 👉More exclusive content is available on Victor’s 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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0:29.8	Hello, this is Victor Davis-Hanson.
0:31.9	I'd like for the Daily Signal.
0:33.8	I'd like to talk about immigration, legal and illegal.
0:36.9	Under Joe Biden, we let in an estimated 2 million illegal immigrants and about 1 million legal immigrants.
0:44.5	We're starting to see some of the consequences that happens when you don't vet people at the border.
0:50.4	We have over the years a massive Somali expatriate population, Minnesota.
0:56.0	Now we are learning that during the COVID period when there was not audits and scrutiny, as there should have been,
1:02.0	a lot of Somali expatriates, both legal citizens and green card holders and illegal aliens,
1:09.0	ran a massive fraud against their adopted country, perhaps
1:13.3	multi-billion. And Ilyan Omar, the self-appointed representative and elected representative of the
1:20.6	Somali community has denied anything was wrong. Tim Walts, who was governed Minnesota, doesn't
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