{"id":11904,"date":"2019-07-17T23:13:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11904"},"modified":"2019-07-17T23:13:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T06:13:32","slug":"the-selfish-actors-of-illegal-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-selfish-actors-of-illegal-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Selfish Actors of Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost every party invested in open borders proves utterly selfish, without regard for the legitimate interests of others or of the law itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Illegal Immigrant<br><\/strong>The immigrant is the pawn of Latin American governments who view him as inanimate capital, someone who represents thousands of dollars in future foreign-exchange remittances, as well as one less mouth to feed at home \u2014 if he crosses the border, legality be damned. If that sounds a cruel or cynical appraisal, then why would the Mexican government in 2005 print a comic booklet (\u201cGuide for the Mexican Migrant\u201d) with instructions to its citizens on how best to cross into the United States \u2014 urging them to break American law and assuming that they could not read?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet for all the savagery dealt out to the immigrant \u2014 the callousness of his government, the shakedowns of the coyotes and cartels, the exploitation of his labor by new American employers \u2014 the immigrant himself is not entirely innocent. He knows \u2014 or does not care to know \u2014 that by entering the U.S., he has taken a slot from a would-be legal immigrant, one, unlike himself, who played by the rules and waited years in line for his chance to become an American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He knowingly violates U.S. immigration law. And when the first act of an immigrant is to enter the U.S. illegally, the second to reside there unlawfully, and the third so often to adopt false identities, he undermines American law on the expectation that he will receive exemptions not accorded to U.S. citizens, much less to other legal immigrants. In terms of violations of federal law, and crimes such as hit-and-run accidents and identity theft, the illegal immigrant is overrepresented in the criminal-justice system, and indeed in federal penitentiaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/2019\/07\/illegal-immigration-many-selfish-actors-benefit\/\">Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Almost every party invested in open borders proves utterly selfish, without regard for the legitimate interests of others or of the law itself. The Illegal ImmigrantThe immigrant is the pawn of Latin American governments who view him as inanimate capital, someone who represents thousands of dollars in future foreign-exchange [&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-360","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6848,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/resisting-immigration-reform\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":0},"title":"Resisting Immigration Reform","author":"victorhanson","date":"December 17, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Identity politics rejects ending illegal immigration and reforming legal immigration. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online\u00a0 We are fast approaching what promises to be the year of \u201ccomprehensive immigration reform.\u201d In the manner of the \u201cAffordable Care Act,\u201d it will not be comprehensive nor will it reform immigration. All\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Immigration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/U.S._Border_Patrol_Badge-205x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1946,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-moral-dimensions-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":1},"title":"The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"October 16, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The New Old Debate Over Illegal Immigration The debate over illegal immigration is mostly fossilized. We know the predictable contours. Despite different realities on the ground, they have not changed much from the 1960s. The narrative for half-a-century has gone something like this: a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Immigration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8945,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/reflections-on-wise-and-suicidal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":2},"title":"Reflections on Wise and Suicidal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ PJ Media Legal immigration has historically been classically liberal and a great boon for the United States. Immigrants often bring in energy and fresh ideas. In the past, newcomers from around the world were eager for a second start in the United States. They nearly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Immigration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net\/e1\/victordavishanson\/user-content\/2\/files\/2016\/01\/immigration_reform_article_banner_1-10-16-1.sized-770x415xc.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net\/e1\/victordavishanson\/user-content\/2\/files\/2016\/01\/immigration_reform_article_banner_1-10-16-1.sized-770x415xc.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net\/e1\/victordavishanson\/user-content\/2\/files\/2016\/01\/immigration_reform_article_banner_1-10-16-1.sized-770x415xc.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pajamasmed.hs.llnwd.net\/e1\/victordavishanson\/user-content\/2\/files\/2016\/01\/immigration_reform_article_banner_1-10-16-1.sized-770x415xc.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1412,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-truths-we-dare-not-speak-about-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":3},"title":"The Truths We Dare Not Speak About Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"August 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media In the last 48 hours almost everything that can be said about illegal immigration has been said. But I am more interested in a few truths that are never quite spoken. 1)\u00a0Why the Sense of Exemption? Why and how exactly do the supporters of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;August 2010&quot;","block_context":{"text":"August 2010","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/archives\/2010\/august-2010\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2563,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-philosophies-of-illegal-immigration\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":4},"title":"The Philosophies of Illegal Immigration","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 3, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Dinosaur Thinking Even to talk of illegal immigration earns slurs. I can attest to that. It is the most self-censored topic in America today, where we construct artificial worlds of rhetoric that in no way resemble reality (e.g., try to suggest that California\u2019s current\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Immigration&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Immigration","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/immigration\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7648,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-moral-crisis-on-our-southern-border\/","url_meta":{"origin":11904,"position":5},"title":"The Moral Crisis on Our Southern Border","author":"victorhanson","date":"July 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"A perfect storm of special interests have hijacked U.S. immigration law. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online No one knows just how many tens of thousands of Central American nationals \u2014 most of them desperate, unescorted children and teens \u2014 are streaming across America\u2019s southern border. Yet this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mexico&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mexico","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/the-world\/mexico\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11905,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions\/11905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}