Megyn Kelly to immigrant audience member: “With all due respect to your family and you, I think if you’re not here lawfully, you got to go”

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From the November 14, 2025, edition of SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, recorded on November 7, 2025

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Alright. So my wife and I are first-generation immigrants from Poland. We live in Chicago, which is a very woke city.

MEGYN KELLY (HOST): Dzien dobry. 

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Thank you. My question is — so we’re huge fans, we listen to your podcast all the time. And your stance on immigration — and the name eludes me, but there is a representative from the state of Florida who I think is a proponent of the Dignity Act, which essentially states that if you’ve lived here for an X amount of years and you can justify that you’ve never been on government support and you’ve never committed a crime, that’s another one, there should be some sort of pathway to citizenship. And I think that’s a better question for Eric and President Trump, but how do you feel about that?

KELLY: Stan, is this a confession?

AUDIENCE MEMBER: Kind of. It’s kind of a confession because I will say openly that my parents — I was born in Poland, but I was 10 months old when we moved here in 1989 as asylum seekers from communists. 

KELLY: Well, that’s a different story, of course. I appreciate the question, and I’m not inhuman. I understand there are a lot of good people who are in that position in the United States right now who realistically will never be deported because we can’t even seem to deport the ones who are extra you know — who have committed violent felonies and are here illegally. 

But if you’re asking me what my belief, you know, in the policy is, I think they have to go, they’ve gotta go. We can barely take care of our own, and we really can’t take care of an extra 20 million who are here illegally. And you can blame it on Joe Biden who opened up the floodgates and just let way too many across the border. 

So I am in favor of deporting everyone who is here illegally, and President Trump has made it such that you can leave and come back if you admit you’re here illegally. But if you stay and Tom Homan finds you, then you’re leaving and you’re never coming back. So with all due respect to your family and you, I think if you’re not here lawfully, you got to go, and I hope you come back.