Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates Gavin Newsom’s response to ICE raids and Trump’s National Guard deployment to stop riots

Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates Gavin Newsom’s response to ICE raids and Trump’s National Guard deployment to stop riots.

Victor Davis Hanson says Gavin Newsom’s meltdown over immigration enforcement may have cost him everything.

“Gavin Newsom then gave a series of editorializations that I think have ruined his chances ever to be a serious national candidate.”

“He said this was chaotic, this was reckless, and he said that they were just trying to have an arbitrary, deportation quota.”

Then Hanson broke down the numbers—and dismantled Newsom’s “quota” claim:

“Gavin, Gavin 12 million people came into the country illegally. That was 3 million a year. That was 250,000 per month. That was over 8,000 a day. They have not been able to deport more than a thousand on most days, sometimes 500.”

“They would have to deport 8,000 people EVERY SINGLE DAY for four years to get back where we were with 20 million illegal aliens, when Joe Biden entered office.”

“So it’s not a quota. It’s an effort to stop an invasion.”

And on Trump’s legal authority to deploy the National Guard in California, Hanson shut down the critics:

“Now Gavin is mad that they nationalized the California Guard. Trump has that ability.”

“And people said, no, no president—they have to request it. No they don’t.”

“You think that JFK said to George Wallace when he nationalized the Alabama National Guard, said, would you please let us nationalize your guard so you can be removed from stopping African-American people going to the University of Alabama? No!”

NEW: Victor Davis Hanson eviscerates Gavin Newsom’s response to ICE raids and Trump’s National Guard deployment to stop riots.

Victor Davis Hanson says Gavin Newsom’s meltdown over immigration enforcement may have cost him everything.

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