Amnesty and immigration policy in the United States

Kelly argues the border is currently closed and the priority should be a wall plus resumed deportations rather than new legislation.

“All we really need to do is keep Trump's policies in place and build a wall so that the next president can't reopen the border”

The Megyn Kelly Show: Sham "Dignity" Amnesty Bill, and the Crucial Lebanon Factor, with Michael Knowles and Ana Kasparian | Ep. 1292 (Apr 9, 2026) · Listen from 21:17

Kelly says Republicans, including Trump, avoid nationwide mandatory E-Verify because they want some illegal workers to remain.

“Republicans, the dirty little secret, including right up to the one in the White House, do favor allowing some portion of illegals to continue staying here and working here”

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Knowles argues asylum claims from those crossing the southern border are essentially all economic rather than political.

“The asylum claims are basically all nonsense. The people who are coming across the border illegally are economic migrants”

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Knowles argues Republican donors, not voters, want amnesty because it supplies cheap labor.

“But some Republican donors want it because they benefit from the slave labor that we get from mass migration”

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