Victor Davis Hanson Says Courts Seem Deaf About Biden’s Border Crisis Hurting Millions Of Americans

Hoover Institute Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday on his show that the courts seem to have “no idea” how the southern border crisis under the Biden-Harris administration has harmed Americans.

During former President Joe Biden’s term, his administration oversaw the highest level of net migration in U.S. history, with an estimated 2.4 million illegal migrants entering the country annually from 2021 to 2023. While discussing the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing the end of deportation protections for Venezuelan migrants on “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” co-host Jack Fowler asked Hanson for his thoughts.

“I just don’t understand that you let in 10 to 12 million people. You don’t audit them. You’re kicking out people in the military that are not vaccinated. You have no idea whether they’re vaccinated. You have no idea whether they have tuberculosis,” Hanson said. “They have no idea whether 500,000, as it turns out, were criminal.”

“You bring them all in, and 75% that are detained and given a card that they have a hearing don’t show up. They’re all here illegally,” Hanson added. “They all broke the law when they came. They broke the law when they reside. I don’t understand why a law enforcement officer just can’t politely go and get one person and say ‘You’re here illegally, and you have to go back to your home. I’m going to escort you back home, and don’t do this again.’”

The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the Trump administration can lift a lower court’s injunction that had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Venezuelan nationals.

Litigation over the TPS revocation for Venezuelans will still continue in the lower courts. (RELATED: ‘Sanctuary State’: Colorado Dems Move To Shut Out ICE)

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Hanson went on to say he was confused as to why the Biden administration allowed “no hearing required for them to come,” adding that illegal migrants arrived “on the idea that they could break the law with impunity.”

“I can understand what they’re talking about, the niceties of the law, but would they just give us an option, or would they give us a direction on how you deal with 10 million people in the last four years on top of 20 million other people who all are here illegally and broke the law?” Hanson asked.

“Do the courts really believe that we’re going to have to have a $4 or $5 million hearing for each of the 10 million people?” Hanson asked. “Is that what it is, a suicide pact? Do they care when they make these rulings? Do they understand the pragmatic?”

Since his first month in office, Trump signed a handful of executive orders addressing illegal immigration and border security, though most have faced pushback from lower courts.

After invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in March, United States District Judge James Boasberg temporarily blocked the order. The case was later taken up by the Supreme Court, which temporarily halted Trump’s effort to deport members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua.

Hanson asked whether the courts understand the impact on communities where illegal migrants are being sent, asking why places like Malibu or Brentwood don’t have to deal with the issue.

“That’s what the court doesn’t seem to be aware of, that this was a cataclysmic event. It really did affect millions of people, and it will affect millions of people from now on. And no one who broke the law unknowingly has ever paid a price,” Hanson said.

“Mayorkas should have been convicted. They didn’t have the votes, but Joe Biden should have been impeached for this. He really should have. There should have been some accountability,” Hanson added. “They deliberately destroyed the border for political purposes. No one cared. The court didn’t get involved at all, never. The court has no clue right now what to do.”

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