Commentary

Things That Can't Go On Forever Simply Don't

By Victor Davis Hanson
Thursday, April 18 2019

Economist Herbert Stein's old adage — "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" — still holds. Take illegal immigration. There are currently somewhere from 11 million to 15 million immigrants living in the United States without legal authorization. Last month, nearly 100,000 people were apprehended or turned away while trying to illegally cross the southern border. Some experts suggest that at least that number made it across without arrest. At that rate, the United States would be gaining a fairly large city of undocumented arrivals each month. Most of…

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