Neil Munro has published an excellent article on the Breitbart News website summarizing the late Charlie Kirk’s ideas regarding immigration, legal and illegal. He notes that while Kirk had originally presented as a “small-government libertarian,” he gradually evolved into an “America-first” proponent.
In particular, Munro cites a debate in which Kirk rejected the “Nation of Immigrants” narrative. When Kirk told his opponent that a hypothetical Mexican migrant should go back home and “make Mexico great,” the opponent countered that the migrant could not because the cartels there “are running the government.”
Kirk: Then go fix your country. Not my problem.
Q. Isn’t that the point of America?
Kirk: No …Is the point to bring a bunch of foreigners, or is the point to protect our own citizens? Is it “We the foreigners of the United States”? .. Were we founded by immigrants or founded by settlers? …. Settlers come to something not built. Immigrants come to something already built ….
I’m sorry if the concerns of like a Third World or in Honduras is not my primary concern. The whole idea of a government is you put your people first. You don’t put the like compassionate narratives of someone in the Third World first. Our country is falling apart, most of you guys will not be able to own a home. You’re going be swimming in debt, medical debt, student loan debt, credit card debt. We’re sending hundreds billions of dollars to Ukraine. So, yeah, we should secure the border and put our put young people first and fulfill the social contract. Don’t worry about the Third World.
For more, see Breitbart News.