Charlie Kirk suggests indicting New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy
Kirk: “If Governor Murphy is breaking federal law and taunting and provoking the feds, just file an indictment”
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From the February 4, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): 8 US code 1324 says it is a federal law to harbor an illegal alien. It is a crime punishable up to five years in prison. The law defines, quote, harboring an illegal alien is considered a felony and can carry serious penalties. If convicted, the individual can face five years for every — each instance of harboring and ten years if it was done for financial gain. Encouraging or assisting illegal immigration, 8 US code 1324 sub-dash 1a part 4 — it is also illegal to encourage or assist someone in entering or remaining in the United States illegally. Penalties for this can also include significant prison time depending on the nature and the scope of the offense. Yesterday, a clip surfaced of the deeply unpopular governor of New Jersey, Governor Phil Murphy, who was in some sort of a interview and was bragging. He was bragging that he is breaking a federal law. Governor Phil Murphy is breaking 8 US code section 1324. So smug, almost taunting the federal government to come after him.
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KIRK: So we don't quite know what that means. An immigration status, not where she wants it to be. Is it someone illegal, someone waiting for paperwork? We don't quite know. But it sure sounds like the way he ended that statement that he is taunting federal authorities saying, I'm breaking the law, what are you gonna do? I'm the governor of New Jersey. Well, Tom Homan had some very sharp words in response to this.
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KIRK: We have no choice. If Governor Murphy is breaking federal law and taunting and provoking the feds, just file an indictment. You don't have to raid the governor's mansion. You don't have to make some big spectacle, but you have no choice. You don't get to selectively choose which immigration laws you're going to live under. And I would do a wide-sweeping indictment of everybody involved in such circumstances. Either we're a nation of laws or we are not. And if you do not like 8 US code section 1324, then go to the House of Representatives and have them change the law. Change the law. Don't say I'm not going to live under those laws.
Remember they were telling us under President Trump, no one is above the law? Well, here you have a governor admitting that he's breaking federal law. And in a non-dramatic way, very matter of fact, very business, you don't need to do a big press conference. Investigate it. If it is true that the governor of New Jersey is indeed harboring an illegal alien, file an indictment. Make him stand and say, hey, you can turn yourself in whenever you want. You can go bring your state troopers. You will come in for processing. You have a week to do so. We're not gonna go raid the governor's mansion. We're not gonna go make a big spectacle out of it. We're not gonna go do the Mar-a-Lago thing, But we've investigated it, you're breaking the law. You have one week to turn yourself into the Southern District of New York — or the New Jersey US attorney's office, and thanks for playing. And then Governor Murphy is gonna have to — he's gonna try to make himself to be some martyr, a martyr for harboring an illegal alien against federal law.