Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering the Consequences

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

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Victor Davis Hanson: Joe Biden Dismantled Basic Immigration Law. Now, Americans Are Suffering the Consequences California Gov. Gavin Newsom called the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce basic immigration law within his state “reckless” and “chaotic”, alleging that federal officials were trying to meet an “arbitrary arrest quota.” The Biden administration let in an estimated 12 million illegal aliens into the U.S. ICE would have to deport 8,000 illegal aliens a day to undo the damage done by the previous administration, which is not only unfeasible, but made more difficult by violent obscuration tactics employed by the Left in sanctuary cities, argues Victor Davis Hanson on today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” “…on a good day, Tom Homan and ICE and the Border Patrol can maybe deport, they find, 800. But Joe Biden let in 10 times that number per day. So, they would have to step up their efforts by a magnitude just to get back to where Joe Biden started. If you let in 12 million people in the space of four years, you're talking about 3 million a year. You're talking 250,000 per month. So, you can see it's 8,000 a day and there's no way that that seems even feasible, even when the Left tries to obstruct that effort with sanctuary cities and district judges who entertain these lawsuits to stop it.” 👉Don’t miss out on Victor’s latest 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 👉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 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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0:30.0	Immigration is not just back in the news, it's in the news every single day. Let's put it some
0:36.0	historical perspective. Joe Biden has a legacy and it's going to be
0:39.7	very hard to deal with. For the next 20 years, we're going to be dealing with the fact that he
0:44.8	and Alejandro Mayorkas deliberately, intentionally destroyed immigration law as we know it.
0:50.4	The Trump administration is doing a heroic job to close the border. That's not the problem now.
0:55.0	They solve that existential problem. The problem is that you have 12 million people here that are completely unaudited.
1:02.0	What do you do with 12 million people when you can only deport 800 or 1,000 a day?
1:08.0	So they would have to step up their efforts by a magnitude just to get back to
1:12.1	where Joe Biden started.
1:25.0	Hello, this is Victor Davis Hansen for the Daily Signal.
1:28.6	Immigration is not just back in the news. It's in the news every single day. Almost every single day,
1:35.5	we see someone here illegally, like Mr. Soleimon committing an act of terror when he tried to burn
1:43.4	Jewish activists, burn them, burn Jews.
1:47.3	We saw Mr. Obrego, who was an M-13 member and became a cause-seleb when he was deported.
1:54.0	He was a spousal abuser.
1:56.3	He was a gang member.
1:57.9	He was a human trafficker.
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