Victor Davis Hanson: ‘It’s Road Warrior Out There’: Illegals Plaguing Our Highways and Health Care

On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Victor Davis Hanson and Jack Fowler dig into the danger of tens of thousands of illegal immigrants racing tractor-trailers down our nation’s highways, and millions of illegal aliens flooding our health care system.

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s edition of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words” from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to VDH’s own YouTube channel to watch past episodes. 

Victor Davis Hanson: And I think [Rep. Ilhan Omar’s] currency’s up. I really do. And when you add this billion [in fraud], and it’s going to get bigger than a billion dollars from what you read. When you add it all up, and you collate the 17,000 driver’s license that we gave mostly to Indian Americans that were here illegally and did not know English and were not living in California, and other states did the same thing, there may be 60,000 of them.

I see them driving all the time. I don’t want to stereotype anybody, but it’s “Road Warrior” now in California. There are trucks in the middle lane that are over the white line. Just this morning at 6:30, I walked outside. Five trucks full of gravel and dirt going to the high-speed rail ramp project were going 65 to 70, it seemed, a foot from my mailbox, 20 tons. Drivers just “bang,” just floorboarding it on a country road where the speed limit’s 55. There’s a lot of people, houses they can pull in and out. And there’s not a highway patrolman to be seen. If one highway patrolman just sat behind an almond tree, he could give 100 tickets a day to those drivers. They’re all going 65 or 70 with 20 tons of dirt, and it’s really scary. 

I don’t want to stereotype, but I look very carefully because I’m about one foot from them when I’m outside on the road, and almost all of them are from India. I say that because they’re wearing turbans or ethnic beards. I really like the Sikh community, but there’s something wrong when people come here illegally, and they get driver’s licenses, and they’re not fully able to read.

Jack Fowler: Yeah. Can you imagine going to China and trying to get a driver’s license and drive when you can’t read the road signs at all?  I’m not doing it. I’m not putting my life at risk, nor other people’s lives at risk.

Hanson: I can’t imagine that going on anywhere. And then you add the students, Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, Yale, from the Middle East, they come over here and they play victim as if they’re part of the DEI binary on the victim side, even though they’re very wealthy kids from the Middle East. They get their Middle East Studies professors funded by Qatar. And then they get “From the River to the Sea.” And then suddenly it’s Jews. And then suddenly they’re chasing them in the library, or they’re roughing them up, or they’re telling them to go on one side of the room. It degenerates into pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah stuff. 

And then when you say to Mr. [Mahmoud] Khalil, I think we’re going to give you your wish. You are so happy about Hamas and the Middle East. Go back there and be happy. Don’t come over here and be unhappy. Racist, racist, xenophobe. 

And then when you add the people coming across the southern border and Laken Riley, all those people who were killed from DUI. I can’t even pick up the Fresno Bee anymore. Almost every single day, there’s two things that happen. A body is found in an orchard. There was one today that no one knows who she is. They just found her there, and they’re asking people who she is. Or there is a hit and run, a wreck, and the driver left the scene of the accident. 

And nobody says a word. California Gov. Gavin Newsom just took 500 million of the budget—that’s 17 billion in the red—and applied it to illegal alien health care. And now he’s panicking because Medi-Cal, which has 40 % of all people in the state on it, is broke and he needed $2 billion from the federal government, and he promulgates a lie. “There’s not an illegal alien on it.” I would say there’s not one illegal alien who’s not on it. And I have had a lot of experience with the California medical system the last nine months. 

MRIs, don’t know what you call it, CAT scans, PET scans, doctor’s visits, specialist visits. It’s not the same health care system of 15 years ago, I can guarantee you that. When you used to say you needed to see a specialist, it was a week, five days. Today they say three or four months.

Fowler: Yeah, people die in the meanwhile.  

Hanson: If you want to get a scan, if you want to get a PET scan, you better call every day, every single day. It’s just a different country. And then to hear these people who let in 12, 15, 20 million people who had no health care, were not audited, from the poorest places, very ill. And then to be told you’re a racist because nobody voted for this, and all of a sudden when a person becomes ill they can’t get proper care, and you’re supposed to feel guilty for thinking it might have something to do at least in the southern United States with an open border. 

These people are really nefarious—these left wingers—because they’re all elites and they always do things to other people that never apply to themselves.

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