Practically from the day Donald Trump entered politics, the Left claimed his vow to halt the flood of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants from Mexico was as futile as it was heartless. But not even two months after Trump’s second inauguration, reports Todd Bensman in The American Mind, the border crisis is effectively over. Thanks to concerted enforcement of existing American law, Bensman notes, illegal crossing attempts are down by 97 percent from the at times 300,000 per month under Democratic President Joe Biden.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
