About Ukrainian war refugees showing up at the southern border:
“Initially, the Ukrainians showing up at the southern border were being pushed back under the Title 42 pandemic health rule on the California side of the border and pro-illegal immigration advocates came to their rescue and made a big to-do about it, and they were immediately paroled into the United States. Now, keep in mind that Ukrainians have always come to the southern border. Ukraine is one of Europe’s poorest countries, and you know it’s the American Dream like anyone else. So they’ve been in the low hundreds. They’ve always been coming. They can fly into Mexico on visas that are easy to get online. So that’s what’s happening. Now we’re seeing a surge of Ukrainian refugees coming to the border. My feeling – and I wrote a piece about this out today – is that the European Union has provided safe haven for three years to every Ukrainian refugee in any one of 27 countries of Europe. These are modern, high-powered economies with full access to health care systems and everything else. And our border is crashed. There are huge problems down there, and our asylum system is crashed too. And my feeling is that since they are taken care of in Europe — even the UK is allowing them to come in for three-year periods — that we really should not be allowing in Ukrainian refugees to come in through our southern border… because we’re collapsing down there and they have other great options.”
“The point is that if we start to see a large enough surge of Ukrainians at our southern border, who will be coming in to claim asylum, that the Biden administration – there’s so much sympathy for the poor Ukrainians, that the Trump-loving Russians invaded them – that the pressure would be to take all of the Ukrainians in, which only prompts more Ukrainians to come in that way. But they don’t need to come in that way. All I’m saying is – and I’m taking a little bit of heat for this column for saying turn them back at the border – but our border is completely in chaos and disarray. We can’t take 100,000 Ukrainians on top of everything else. We just can’t. And they’re being taken care of elsewhere, very generously, I might add. These are not desperate refugees with nowhere else to go.”