Immigration Gone Wild

Article subtitle: 
A sweeping backlash that now threatens even legal immigration.
Article CAIRCO note: 
Immigrants and illegal aliens think Americans are chumps
Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
8 December 2025
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 million entrants. Among them were an estimated 500,000 criminals...

Worse, the message went out that there would be few, if any, deportations...

During the lockdown hysteria, some 8,000-8,500 U.S. soldiers were expelled from the military for refusing the experimental mRNA vaccine. State employees nationwide were being fired for refusing the government vaccines. Nevertheless, illegal aliens would have no such mandates or worries...

Was the agenda to create future dependencies and constituencies for an otherwise ossified Democratic Party?...

... the Democrats' response has been Orwellian. After assuming the law did not apply to illegal alien entrants, they now insist its full force must apply to each of 10 million aliens before they can be sent home...

... never has the U.S. foreign-born resident population approached 50-55 million or 16 percent of the population...

The logical result of such tribal immigration is now upon us...

Meanwhile, California has issued at least 17,000 commercial driver’s licenses to illegal alien truck drivers...

In sum, Americans now believe that the current generation of immigrants interprets their magnanimity and generosity as weakness and stupidity to be manipulated and scorned, and rarely as generosity to be appreciated and reciprocated in kind.