{"id":11790,"date":"2019-04-18T14:08:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T21:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:06:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:06:20","slug":"things-that-cant-go-on-forever-simply-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/things-that-cant-go-on-forever-simply-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Can\u2019t Go on Forever Simply Don\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Economist Herbert Stein\u2019s old adage\u2014\u201dIf something cannot go on forever, it will stop\u201d\u2014still holds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Take illegal immigration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are currently somewhere from 11 million to 15 million immigrants living in the United States without legal authorization. Last month, nearly 100,000 people were apprehended or turned away while trying to illegally cross the southern border. Some experts suggest that at least that number made it across without arrest. At that rate, the United States would be gaining a fairly large city of undocumented arrivals each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the people who enter the United States illegally arrive without fluency in English, a high-school diploma, competitive job skills or money. The majority will require support subsidies, and collectively they will require increased legal and law-enforcement investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At some point, American social services will be so taxed that the system will be rendered dysfunctional\u2014as is already occurring in areas of the American Southwest. Or, some regions of America will so resemble the countries undocumented immigrants abandoned that there will be little point in heading north.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/04\/17\/things-that-cant-go-on-forever-simply-dont\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness Economist Herbert Stein\u2019s old adage\u2014\u201dIf something cannot go on forever, it will stop\u201d\u2014still holds. Take illegal immigration. There are currently somewhere from 11 million to 15 million immigrants living in the United States without legal authorization. Last month, nearly 100,000 people were apprehended or turned away while trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[111,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-34a","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11596,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-ironies-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11790,"position":0},"title":"The Ironies of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 10, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Estimates suggest that there are eleven million to 13 million Mexican citizens currently living in the United States illegally. 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