By Victor Davis Hanson
The spiteful open-borders legacy of Joe Biden will plague America for generations to come, long after the former president is a fading bad memory.
Almost all were unaudited.
They stormed the border for four years without background checks of the sort that American citizens must undergo to purchase a firearm or take out a loan.
At a time when citizens were expelled from the military for not submitting to the experimental mRNA COVID inoculations, millions of foreign nationals, with the Biden administration’s encouragement, crossed the southern border, exempt from any vaccination requirement or medical examination.
On some days, the Trump administration has managed to deport 800 of Biden’s illegal aliens.
But ten times that many entered illegally each day under Biden.
Trump’s border patrol would have to deport over 8,000 people every day of his four-year tenure just to undo what Biden wrought by his dismantling of federal immigration law.
Indeed, new reports relate almost every day that another illegal alien has murdered, raped, or assaulted an American citizen.
The culpable left often champions violent illegal alien criminals facing deportation. Their apparent assumption is that hurting Trump politically justifies hurting Americans even more by protecting violent illegal alien criminals instead of sending them home.
Thousands of these unknown criminals are deadly land mines waiting to explode.
There are nearly 300,000 Chinese nationals in American universities, the vast majority admitted without serious background checks.
They are welcomed by elite campuses because they pay the full cost and at a premium, with few questions asked about why exactly they came or what they are doing.
No wonder, then, that in the last decade, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government is reported to have trained and graduated hundreds of Chinese nationals who were either Communist Party members or the children of prominent Chinese communist apparatchiks.
Not a day went by during the last two years without Middle Eastern, pro-Hamas visa students on some campus swarming students in libraries, assaulting and bullying Jews, trashing iconic buildings, illegally camping out in student quads, and screaming to bring the intifada home to the U.S.
Neither the Biden administration nor spineless college presidents took any action, despite such flagrant violations of both the terms and spirit of student visas.
Most recently, Yunqing Jian, a 33-year-old Chinese national with ties to the University of Michigan, was arrested as an “agro-terrorist.”
Sometimes the baleful Biden immigration inheritance was simply a matter of allowing “tourists” and “visitors” to stay far after their visas had expired—without consequences.
So, for example, Egyptian national and terrorist, Mohamed Soliman, along with his entire family, deliberately overstayed their visas. They were all residing here illegally when Mohamed firebombed Jews, crying out “Free Palestine” as he tried to burn them up.
Americans overwhelmingly polled against this Biden border nihilism. Indeed, the House impeached his henchman, Alejandro Mayorkas, the Secretary of Homeland Security.
So why would a president deliberately cause such mayhem that will cost hundreds of lives and billions of dollars in the years to come?
Was the reason Biden’s characteristic incompetence or dementia?
Or did Biden simply want to alter the demography to find a constituency for his otherwise unpopular agendas?
Was Biden hoping to expand the DEI agenda by bringing in the poor and supposedly oppressed as new fodder in the Left’s Marxist binary of victimized versus victimizer?
No one knows why Biden did it, only that he did—and we will suffer his nihilist legacy for years to come.
First published in American Greatness
