City Journal
Mexifornia, Five Years Later
The flood of illegal immigrants into California has made things worse than I foresaw.
Victor Davis Hanson
Winter 2007

In the Spring 2002 issue of City Journal, I wrote an essay about growing up in the central San Joaquin Valley and witnessing firsthand, especially over the last 20 years, the ill effects of illegal immigration (City Journal’s editors chose the title of the piece: “Do We Want Mexifornia?â€