Why Is Stephen Miller the Only One Asking the Right Questions in Public?

Stephen Miller explains why he thinks a 1965 law changed U.S. immigration policy substantially on ‘The Will Cain Show…

During the civil rights era, and this is the simplest way I can put it, there was a thought in effect. If you go back and you can read the transcripts of the debate at the time, of applying civil rights to immigration policy for the globe, and to create a civil right for people from every part of the world to come to America in ever-growing numbers. And so a system that for years, as you mentioned, had been tightly restricted, suddenly established this global ability of people at every part of the world to come to America, to bring their families to America, and then eventually empty out their entire towns and their entire villages to the United States of America.

And so what you saw between 1965 and today was the single largest experiment on a society, on a civilization that had ever been conducted in human history. Not just the 76 million immigrants that were brought in, largely from the third world, but their descendants too. So you see with a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful, again, Somalia is a clear example here, not only is the first generation unsuccessful, but you see persistent issues in every subsequent generation.

So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate, but this shouldn’t be a surprise, Will. It’s just common sense. If Somalians cannot make Somalia successful, why would we think that the track would be any different in the United States? Go third world country by third world country.

No one’s saying, look, there are people all over the world that are great people, but you look at the society. If Libya keeps failing, if the Central African Republic keeps failing, if Somalia keeps failing, if these societies all over the world continue to fail, you have to ask yourself, if you bring those societies into our country and then give them unlimited free welfare, what do we think is going to happen? You’re going to replicate the conditions that they left over and over and over again. And we mask the impact of immigration in every public policy issue we discuss.

We talk about test scores. Will, if you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of a sudden our test scores skyrocket. If you subtract immigration out of health care, all of a sudden we don’t have near the size of the health care challenges our country faces.

If you subtract immigration out of public safety, all of a sudden we don’t have violent crime in so many of our cities. Issue after issue, we talk about these things that just, they just happened to us. The schools just suddenly fail.

Violent crime just suddenly explodes. The deficit just suddenly skyrockets. These are a result of social policy choices that we made through immigration.