Stephen Miller praises Texas' unconstitutional racial profiling bill SB4
Miller on hardline immigration bill: “The right needs to either get serious about using government power to save this country or there won't be a country to save”
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From the March 21, 2024, edition of The Benny Johnson Show
STEPHEN MILLER (GUEST): Only a handful of red states in this country are doing anything. I mean for example we’ve seen, it’s an example of a Texas legislature doing something great, they passed this incredible law. Why isn’t it SB4 – unfortunately it’s caught up in the courts – but why isn’t every single red state criminalizing illegal immigration?
Why is there one red state in this country that hasn't done it? Rather than all of them haven't done it except for Texas where making it a crime to be in that state illegally, to do business in that state illegally, to work illegally, so that when you catch an illegal alien, you have a half a dozen different criminal charges you can file against them.
The right needs to either get serious about using government power to save this country or there won't be a country to save. The whole -- the fatal flaw of conservatism, which is embedded into it, is that because conservatism is suspicious, justly suspicious, of government, that when conservatives gain power they put all their energy figuring out how to do nothing. That is suicide.
You have to, at some level, be willing to put your allies, put your friends, put your ideological brethren into government and expect them and hope that they will, demand that they use that power to turn the country back towards goodness and virtue. Because if your whole theory is we're going to put conservatives in government and then they'll all just do nothing and leave everybody alone, you will be conquered.