Hanson warns that affluent immigrants from failed states push socialist agenda

Victor Davis Hanson, speaking for one outlet, argues that the current influx of immigrants—both legal and illegal—has reached a scale that challenges the United States' capacity to assimilate newcomers. He cites Biden-era figures of roughly 12 million arrivals, plus over a million and a half legal immigrants, creating a demographic of 30 million recent entrants and 53 million people not born in the country. Hanson draws a parallel to the 1900-1910 wave of Southern and Eastern European migrants, which sparked anxieties about radical politics.

He then highlights a list of affluent, mostly Muslim, Democratic politicians and media personalities whose families came from failed states such as Somalia, Uganda, Egypt, Ethiopia, Peru and the West Bank, noting their substantial wealth and advocacy for policies like abolishing the Senate, reparations and expanded social programs. Hanson contends that these newcomers, rather than integrating, are leveraging their resources to push a socialist agenda that diverges from traditional American values, thereby eroding broader support for immigration.