Charlie Kirk: “My whole life, I've heard people complain about traffic on the 405. Mass deportations will help solve that.”
Kirk's guest Alex Marlow on Los Angeles: “This city was ruined decades ago”
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From the June 11, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
ALEX MARLOW (GUEST): This is one of these things where I'm watching all these libs on social media yell at us, and these celebrities yell at us like we're monsters if we're intolerant of Trump enforcing the law.
This city was ruined decades ago. It was my, really education in politics was understanding that my city was getting overrun, and it was causing a lot of downstream effects. It wasn't just that people are unpleasant or they're all bad people. No. And it's not about that. It's the effects of illegal immigration. And it — what dawned on me is when I was an intern for Larry Elder about 20 years ago, and he was going through how expensive it cost to educate people and how actually public schools in LA are more expensive than private schools per pupil. It's just the cost is deferred to taxpayers. Why is that? Because there's so much administration that's necessary. There's so many people who don't speak the language. There's so many things that need to be put into place, not just the bureaucracies and the unions and all that stuff, but to educate people where English is a second language and to put that entirely on the state, and they're coming from homes where the parents don't speak the language. And we don't just tolerate it, Charlie. We embrace it. We love it. That's just the school system. So that's why a public school student costs more than a typical Catholic school student in the LA area, and the schools are not usable. Our test scores keep going down. They're more dangerous places to be. They're completely unpleasant parts of life here. That's just one example.
But health care is another massive one. My wife worked at a community hospital serving a largely Hispanic population, and they don't ask you for your papers when you go in to get a service. And if you need something, like, let's say, a bone marrow transplant, it costs $700,000. And if you're an illegal alien and you showed up at her county hospital in LA that she worked at, they don't turn you away. Who is paying for that, Charlie? I'm paying for it. The taxpayers are paying for it. And so how can you run a city like this? You could never do it. And yet we just accepted it, that this is what we're gonna have in the city. Illegal aliens are gonna make everything expensive. There's gonna be more crime. And my point about the culture is very big. LA used to be the cultural hub of the world. We're totally Balkanized now. There is areas where certain groups of people go and areas where other groups of people go, and they don't always cross over. That is bizarre. That's not America. That's not a melting pot. That's like the prison tray where you get the — that you get your meals on where everything's sectioned off. You don't run a city that way, and that's been our life here for decades. And Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and Tom Homan, and Kristi Noem are saying, why? Why, Charlie? Why are we doing this? We're not doing it anymore.
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Honestly, you know, my whole life, I've heard people complain about traffic on the 405. Mass deportations will help solve that. And, I mean —
MARLOW: It really will.
KIRK: No. I'm just I'm being honest. I mean, you can't bring in millions of people and then, you know, act as if they have the public infrastructure for it. And, look, as a nation, we have a big heart —
MARLOW: Yes.
KIRK: I think that if someone's in this country and they need immediate health care, yeah, you saved their life. But you cannot simultaneously have domestic generosity with unruly invasion. They are a contradiction. So then all of a sudden, your generosity is taken advantage of, and we are naively then subsidizing our own demise. And this is a very, very important point is that, OK, good intentions — everyone has good intentions. They mean nothing. They don't translate to good public policy.
And in Los Angeles, it is a cluttered city. And, again, the media is gonna take this out of context. I don't care. It's a dirty city. I'm not saying it's all because of immigrants. It's just dirty. Graffiti is everywhere. There's trash on the streets. There's homeless everywhere. It's a filthy place. And it never used to be that way.