Authored by Victor Davis Hanson via The Daily Signal,
This is a lightly edited transcript of an Oct. 19 segment of the "Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words" podcast.
In the news right now, it's rioting in France, rioting in Belgium, rioting in Italy, rioting in Albania, with other countries experiencing threats to riot. Who are these people? Well, they're supposedly students that are angry that their classrooms or their education is not competitive or it's subpar.
They're socialists that are driving the unrest, but especially they're immigrants. And let me just say at the outset, it's very common among the Left in the West, in Europe, Canada, the United States to immediately bash anybody who criticizes immigration. But the Left is the party that created this problem because most people who are centrist or independents or on the right approve of immigration with a qualifier.
It has to be legal. It has to be diverse from all over the world, not just from Africa or south of the border or Asia. It has to be measured so, in some fashion, the people coming in are not a million, 2 million, 3 million a year. They have to be in the thousands that can be acculturated, assimilated and integrated, because if they're not, then what's over there comes here - and not what over there comes here and becomes West; it brings that culture into the West.
Now, another thing to remember is it has to be meritocratic. Everybody wants to come to the West, and to the degree that Western nations say to those in Africa and Asia and the Western Hemisphere, "We can't accommodate everybody. We have a few for r
