Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson predicted Tuesday on his podcast that when President-elect Trump moves forward with his deportation plans, Democrats will be “weeping and crying” on television. Since Trump won both the Electoral College and the popular vote, Democrats have expressed a range of reactions to their party’s loss. On The Victor Davis Hanson Show, Hanson suggested that Trump will bring a “return to normalcy” on the issue of illegal immigration, acknowledging that Democrats will likely push back.
“But I will issue a warning to everybody, you haven’t seen the left. When you start deporting people, even with a criminal record, they’re going to be on CNN weeping and crying. They’re going to be on the internet [saying], ‘This is like Hitler.’ So brace yourself,” Hanson said. Hanson went on to say that while some sanctuary cities may resist federal penalties for not cooperating in the deportation of illegal immigrants, liberals won’t be able to blame a lack of federal funding for their stance, the Daily Caller reported.
“If you say that a sanctuary city is not going to get [money] — if it insists and it will not get certain types of federal funds [then] people say, ‘Oh, my daughter was killed on the freeway because it wasn’t fixed,’” Hanson added. “The same left-wing mind that looks over here at High-Speed Rail, this Stonehenge six miles from my house — $15 billion — nothing. There’s the most dangerous freeway in the world parallel to it, the 99.”
“Just two lanes in each direction … It hasn’t changed since 1960 and because why? Because money has been siphoned off from the highway funds and put into this boondoggle and no one said a word. That is criminal. That really is because thousands of people have been maimed and injured on this freeway in the last 15 to 20 years,” Hanson concluded.
Despite California’s high taxes and gas prices, the state has long faced challenges on its freeways, particularly Highway 99, also known as the Golden State Highway. The road earned its nickname due to the high number of accidents, with data from Auto Accident revealing 62 fatalities per 100 miles over a five-year period at one point.
While Trump has outlined his plans to secure the U.S. southern border, including mass deportations of millions of illegal immigrants who crossed under the Biden-Harris administration, Democratic states like California are reportedly preparing to resist. Immigrant advocates and officials in the blue state are vowing to fight any immigration laws that may be enacted under Trump’s second administration, arguing that some policies will “tear families apart, destabilize communities, and weaken our economy,” according to Cal Matters.
That said, the policies Trump will seek to re-implement after President Joe Biden reversed them on his first day in office have already been litigated in federal courts and should not even be entertained at this point by federal judges. Should some courts take the cases, however, and rule against Trump, it’s much more likely the U.S. Supreme Court will support his authority as president to re-implement policies by executive order that he had implemented during his first term.
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