Why Exactly Did They Destroy the Border?

Article author: 
Victor Davis Hanson
Article publisher: 
American Greatness
Article date: 
19 February 2026
Article category: 
Our American Future
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Why would any president destroy the U.S. southern border?...

Yet for years, Democrats and leftists themselves had written triumphalist books with titles like “The Emerging Democratic Majority.” And often they crowed that “Demography is Destiny.”...

Not too long ago, Texas State Representative Gene Wu (D-Houston), chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, jumped the shark to say out loud what is usually left unsaid about the Democrat agenda:

The day the Latino, African American, Asian, and other communities realize that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now. We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone.

... The same unapologetic left-wing weaponization of illegal immigration is occurring in Europe...

The Left’s political agenda for illegal immigration was to be realized either immediately through compromised ballot integrity or soon enough by warping the census-based reapportionment of congressional districts...

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