Charlie Kirk says he can’t find “Christ-like compassion” for long-term immigrants who don’t speak English

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): All 55 million visa holders should have to take an English test. Very simple. Take a second or third grade English test. Do you know what’s a little disappointing, is how often I meet people in this country that don’t speak any English. And I really try to have some Christ-like compassion, I do. But then I ask the interpreter, “How long have they been here?” “Oh, they’ve been here for 30 years,” and they don’t speak any English? Yeah, I’m sorry. That’s an immediate symbol you have not assimilated to the United States of America.

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People always say, “Well, we’re a successful multicultural experiment.” For now. Multiculturalism is a very, very difficult project. In fact, we should have uniculturalism. One culture, Americanism. We have one culture that you assimilate towards. One. We should not put up with all these different pockets of culture. You assimilate towards the American culture. Of course, you can have history and traditions and — I mean, we play Scottish bagpipes for goodness sake. The point though is that you are Americans. You’re not — we need to get rid of this hyphenated American. “Well, I’m a Vietnamese-American, and I’m a Indian-American, and I’m a Nepalese-American, and I’m a –” No, no. You’re an American. And the most important component of that is learning English.

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America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that. But for the 50 — we have 55 million foreigners in this country, and I’m sure many of them are wonderful people, I’m sure. I’m sure some of them are ones that I know, but we’ve got to take a step back and say, guys, that you’re no longer a nation. You’re something else. You’re a colony. 

The idea and the perspective of what we think of the United States of America, I think, needs to be a little bit reconsidered because we have this 30, 40 year old picture that anybody can come here, anyone should come here at any time. And it’s just not that simple.