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

Jun 10, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson discusses the fallout from the Biden administration's immigration policies, highlighting the staggering influx of around 12 million undocumented immigrants. He critiques the challenges faced by ICE in deporting individuals, noting that current efforts would need to escalate dramatically to reverse the situation. The conversation dives into how this situation affects American citizens and explores the motivations behind the new policies. Hanson also raises concerns about the long-term implications for Biden's legacy amid increasing polarization over immigration.

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Biden's Immigration Law Dismantling

Joe Biden and Alejandro Mayorkas intentionally dismantled existing immigration laws, allowing 12 million illegal immigrants in four years.
This surge far outpaces deportation capabilities, creating a lasting challenge for the next 20 years.

ANECDOTE

Violence from Illegal Immigrants Examples

There are real security and safety consequences from illegal immigration, such as assaults and hit-and-run traffic incidents.
Examples include an attempted terror attack on Jewish activists and numerous violence cases linked to illegal immigrants.

INSIGHT

Deportation Rate vs Influx

The current deportation rate of about 800 people daily is vastly lower than the rate at which illegal immigrants were let in daily under Biden.
To return to pre-Biden immigration levels, deportation efforts would need to increase tenfold immediately.

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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.”

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