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American historian and columnist Victor Davis Hanson commented today at American Greatness on the organized and skillful way some 12 million legal immigrants entered the United States through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.
“All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams,” Hanson wrote. “They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally.”
“Yet Ellis Island’s successful tenure offers a sharp contrast to the failures of our recent open-border catastrophes,” Hanson continued. “Americans will never know how many immigrants swarmed the southern border between 2021 and 2025, when Joe Biden and his impeached Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas destroyed federal immigration law as we once knew it.”
The Biden administration, “by design,” the Stanford University senior fellow observed, ended up allowing between 10 and 12 million illegal immigrants across the border, many of whom “grew violent at any sign of even meek efforts by ICE officers to enforce the law.”
Democrats had succeeded, within just four years, in pulling in “almost as many illegal immigrants as had entered through Ellis Island legally over seven decades,” Hanson wrote.
He noted that, now, as the Trump administration has returned to legal-only immigration, Americans are witnesses to images of persistent organized anti-American mob scenes and violence against ICE officers.
“It is surreal that those who claimed moral superiority while systemically destroying federal law now condemn as immoral those striving to restore it,” he asserted.
Read Hanson’s entire piece, “Confronting Anti-Ellis Island Immigration,” here at American Greatness.
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