Victor Davis Hanson
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And so I would think that you should, under our new immigration policy, there should be a health check at the border. And nobody should be let in who's legal, and anybody who's coming legally should have a vaccination history and a checkup, as was true in the past.
Well, we do have that program already. It's kind of difficult. And according to Mr. Luknik and the Commerce Secretary, there may be as many as 200,000 people queuing up that we have not been able to accommodate.
Well, we do have that program already. It's kind of difficult. And according to Mr. Luknik and the Commerce Secretary, there may be as many as 200,000 people queuing up that we have not been able to accommodate.
Well, we do have that program already. It's kind of difficult. And according to Mr. Luknik and the Commerce Secretary, there may be as many as 200,000 people queuing up that we have not been able to accommodate.
It's not such an easy thing because the people who had that means of $5 million, some of them may have got their money through illegal or illicit means, so they have to have a very careful background check. But the simple thing is, as he said, if you do the math and you're paying $5 million And you've got $200,000 lined up, right? $200,000 million. And you've got a trillion dollars you could get.
It's not such an easy thing because the people who had that means of $5 million, some of them may have got their money through illegal or illicit means, so they have to have a very careful background check. But the simple thing is, as he said, if you do the math and you're paying $5 million And you've got $200,000 lined up, right? $200,000 million. And you've got a trillion dollars you could get.
It's not such an easy thing because the people who had that means of $5 million, some of them may have got their money through illegal or illicit means, so they have to have a very careful background check. But the simple thing is, as he said, if you do the math and you're paying $5 million And you've got $200,000 lined up, right? $200,000 million. And you've got a trillion dollars you could get.
And you could apply that right to the debt. So, it's enticing. And then the criticism of it, well, we're an egalitarian society. Yes. But... We are bringing in 12 million people the last four years who have made enormous claims on the state in health care, on education, on housing, on nutrition, on food, everything.
And you could apply that right to the debt. So, it's enticing. And then the criticism of it, well, we're an egalitarian society. Yes. But... We are bringing in 12 million people the last four years who have made enormous claims on the state in health care, on education, on housing, on nutrition, on food, everything.
And you could apply that right to the debt. So, it's enticing. And then the criticism of it, well, we're an egalitarian society. Yes. But... We are bringing in 12 million people the last four years who have made enormous claims on the state in health care, on education, on housing, on nutrition, on food, everything.
And some people have argued that it could be as high as $30,000 or $40,000 per year per illegal immigrant. And that's aside from the law enforcement problem. So what Donald Trump is saying, we're going to stop that and it will be expensive in the short term to deport people. But once we get the border control, we'll have legal only immigration.
And some people have argued that it could be as high as $30,000 or $40,000 per year per illegal immigrant. And that's aside from the law enforcement problem. So what Donald Trump is saying, we're going to stop that and it will be expensive in the short term to deport people. But once we get the border control, we'll have legal only immigration.
And some people have argued that it could be as high as $30,000 or $40,000 per year per illegal immigrant. And that's aside from the law enforcement problem. So what Donald Trump is saying, we're going to stop that and it will be expensive in the short term to deport people. But once we get the border control, we'll have legal only immigration.
And people will go back to a system where they will apply for immigration for a green card, which allows them to work. And then once they're here, if they have not broken the law and they're self-sustaining, then they can apply for citizenship. At the same time, he wants to expand the special entry.
And people will go back to a system where they will apply for immigration for a green card, which allows them to work. And then once they're here, if they have not broken the law and they're self-sustaining, then they can apply for citizenship. At the same time, he wants to expand the special entry.
And people will go back to a system where they will apply for immigration for a green card, which allows them to work. And then once they're here, if they have not broken the law and they're self-sustaining, then they can apply for citizenship. At the same time, he wants to expand the special entry.
We have all sorts of independent agents in the United States, and they make a pretty lucrative living by having a rich foreigner say, Mr. Smith, You're a citizenship broker. I want you to fast track my citizenship applications. So he's trying to expand that and he uses the word gold card. Green card is for everybody. Gold card is the person.
We have all sorts of independent agents in the United States, and they make a pretty lucrative living by having a rich foreigner say, Mr. Smith, You're a citizenship broker. I want you to fast track my citizenship applications. So he's trying to expand that and he uses the word gold card. Green card is for everybody. Gold card is the person.
We have all sorts of independent agents in the United States, and they make a pretty lucrative living by having a rich foreigner say, Mr. Smith, You're a citizenship broker. I want you to fast track my citizenship applications. So he's trying to expand that and he uses the word gold card. Green card is for everybody. Gold card is the person.
And as he explained it, these people then would have a lot of money. It's not that they have five million. If you're going to spend five million, you have a lot more. So you would come in and you would buy things and hire people and pay taxes and it would be good for us.