Megyn Kelly’s recent conversation with Matt Walsh cut to the heart of a debate most politicians pretend isn’t happening: why so many Americans now question the wisdom of importing vast numbers of immigrants from failing, third-world states. On her show Walsh laid out the argument plainly — ordinary citizens are watching their communities change, their schools strain, and their public services buckle, and they’re asking their leaders why America should continue to absorb the world’s dysfunction.
Walsh didn’t mince words: he argues the president should use existing authority to halt migration from the Third World and force a long-overdue recalibration of our legal immigration priorities. Millions of Americans have reached the same conclusion privately — that we can’t be the globe’s unlimited safety net while our own infrastructure, jobs, and cultural cohesion fray. That bluntness is exactly what so many in the political class refuse to say out loud.
The reason the open-borders orthodoxy persists isn’t mystery — it’s incentives. Political operatives, corporate special interests hungry for cheap labor, and virtue-signaling elites push mass immigration while downplaying the real costs to working-class Americans. When conservative voices like Walsh and others go viral pushing for moratoriums and common-sense limits, it’s because working people finally feel heard after years of being told to sacrifice for a globalist agenda.
Look at Minneapolis as a case study: the city’s Somali community has added vibrancy and hard work, but it has also become a flashpoint in a larger fight over assimilation, public safety, and civic loyalty as politicians elevate identity over competence. When local politicians or mayoral hopefuls appear to prioritize foreign allegiances or cultural enclaves over American civic norms, it fuels the alarm that many conservatives have long sounded about unchecked immigration and the erosion of shared values. That isn’t xenophobia; it’s a demand that those who come here adopt and defend our way of life.
The remedy is straightforward and patriotic: restore border integrity, prioritize skilled and assimilable entrants, enforce immigration laws, and stop treating American taxpayers as an endless funding stream for global problems. If conservatives can keep pressing this argument plainly and persistently, we can reclaim policy from the elites who misgovern us and return to an immigration system that serves the American people first.
