Daily Wire host calls for banning immigrants from serving in Congress, denaturalizing and deporting people “who can't speak English or who cost taxpayers money,” and “drastically” curtailing the right to vote
Walsh: “We should disenfranchise everyone on welfare, even if they're American citizens”
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From the April 29, 2026, edition of The Daily Wire's The Matt Walsh Show
MATT WALSH (HOST): So in the spirit of our Founding Fathers, I humbly present my proposal for what you might call a heritage American bill of rights. This is a series of rules that, if enforced, would ensure the future survival of the United States by protecting the culture and shared heritage that our president has correctly identified as fundamental to our existence as a nation.
Rule number one, first generation immigrants should not be permitted to serve in Congress at all, especially illiterate Somali ones, but also in general. Like, if you just got here, then you have no business telling Americans how to live their lives. You have no business spending their money. You certainly have no business complaining all the time or defaming millions of people. It's the height of humiliation for Americans to have to listen to a member of Congress talk about World War 11. No self-respecting country would tolerate this. We shouldn't either. We already require that presidents must be natural born citizens, and that requirement should simply be extended to Congress as well for all the same reasons that we apply to the presidency.
Rule number two, foreigners who can't speak English or who cost taxpayers money should be deported. Any — and if they're citizens, they should be denaturalized and deported. Anyone who doesn't speak our language is not an American. They can't participate in our society. Communication is one of the fundamental — is perhaps the fundamental requirement, number one, of participating in a society is being able to communicate. And if you can't do that, then you're not a participant in that society, and you're not a member of that society. So they can't assimilate. They can only wall themselves off in ethnic enclaves, which breed resentment and fraud and poverty, and obviously, if these people are drawing from welfare benefits, situation is even less sustainable. If you come to this country and you become a net drain on society, then you need to go back. You cannot come to this country and then immediately become someone that the rest of us have to take care of. That's not our responsibility, actually. It's not our responsibility as Americans to take care of the entire world. I actually have my own kids. I take care of them. You're coming here from Guatemala or something, not my responsibility to take care of you. Go talk to your own family. Go back — go talk to your own countrymen. Figure it out at home. Not my job. Sorry. We can't afford any other outcome. Even if we wanted to feed and educate and pay the medical bills for all of the entire world, we can't. I mean, the money simply isn't there. It's not a possibility.
Rule number three, I've been very open that I think we should drastically curtail the right to vote, across the board. You should have some actual stake in this country at a minimum if you want to vote. There has to be some legacy you want to protect, and we can't measure the stakes solely through property ownership, especially since foreigners mainly from China are buying a lot of our property. We also can't measure the stakes solely through the number of children you have since foreigners are having children at far higher rates than the native population. I think a very moderate and extremely generous proposal — like I said, this is very moderate. But immigrants should not be allowed to vote in our elections until they've been legal citizens in this country for, say, 10 years. So you have to become a legal citizen and then wait another ten years before you can vote. Voting is not or shouldn't be a universal right granted to everyone. We already — it's not already. We already have some minimal standards for voting. You have to be 18. Most states have restrictions on felons voting. Our Founding Fathers obviously intended for the parameters to be much stricter. Now we can't prevent people from voting based on race, and we shouldn't, and no one is suggesting that, but we can protect our institutions by taking basic steps to make sure that voters are actual adult citizens of the country who are assimilated into the culture and invested in it. I also think all voters should be required to complete and and pass a fifth grade civics exam, which will be administered in English, by the way, that'll check off the you should be an English speaker box as well. And we should disenfranchise everyone on welfare, even if they're American citizens. You should not be able to vote yourself money from the public treasury, you shouldn't be allowed to do that. If I'm paying into the system and you're not, you're taking from it, then your vote should not count as much as mine, in fact, you shouldn't have a vote. But let's start with the 10 year voting moratorium for new citizens and, and go from there. Very moderate place to start. Baby steps.