California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton discusses ICE, Gavin Newson and California.

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Steve Hilton, a candidate for California governor, voiced strong criticism of the state's Democratic leadership, particularly on issues related to immigration enforcement and law and order. Hilton argued that current policies fail to enforce existing laws, citing examples such as cooperation with ICE, homelessness, and retail theft.

He also criticized the state's response to recent wildfires, claiming that recovery and rebuilding efforts have stalled due to government incompetence. Hilton accused Governor Gavin Newsom of prioritizing political messaging over effective governance, and expressed opposition to proposed housing policies he believes would negatively impact property values.

California gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton discusses ICE

Steve Hilton is running for California governor, and he is here with us on the set. Steve, good to have you to be here This you know watching that and watch it I mean you had the kid firing the gun and ice agents and you have every Democrat in your state including your governor Yeah, you know on the side of the people that are firing at ice. Yeah, I mean, it's it's insane What's happened politically in your state? Yes, most specifically on immigration Every single day. Yeah, they give us more evidence that they are totally on the wrong side of Every kind of principle value the law morality. What are they doing now with this position that they've taken? They are standing not just with illegal immigrants. We've known that for years They're not standing with child traffickers people who just child slave labor Some of the people that were arrested were child molesters And that's who they're standing up for and the other point I'd make about all in the violence Look at those pictures the violence that we're seeing. They're completely disgraceful They this is now a pattern in California the Democrats in charge never enforce the law Never they never in for not just on this issue I mean there by the way, they're refusing to enforce not just federal immigration or state law even the their own Sanctuary state. Yeah law that they constantly cite say we cannot do anything here. I've read that law I will enforce that law it is very clear that when you're dealing with people who have been convicted of a crime in the last 15 years and the list of Crimes is very long not just violent crimes all the ones that we saw there in connection to the pot farm But crimes like illegal possession of a firearm Drug offenses long list of crimes within the sanctuary state law that specifically in the law It says you can have discretion to cooperate with ice If we had that in California, you wouldn't need these kind of raids You would be able to deal with it in a responsible way at the courthouse in jails and so on and you and you see how? emboldened people are and I mean if you people are taking rocks as big as their hand and Chucking them at the van as ice, right? I mean to a federal armed. It's unbeliever This is they don't think anyone's ever going to do anything Yeah, because they've for years like you said nobody's that they've been taught and by the way It's on every issue. Yeah homelessness, right? Look at the disgrace of People sleeping on the streets and they've homeless encampments. That's against the law and has been against the law for years They've done nothing about that Retail shoplifting the brazen flouting of the law. That's California. It's lawless under these Democrats It's a very simple point enforce the law. It's just it's it's so frustrating to see it's it's such an incredible state I got to live out there for a couple years. It's such a beautiful thing that they're destroying They're destroying there as fast as they can this this cancer of their ideology and I want to get to one more thing before I let you go this. Yeah, it's been six months now. It's been more than six months since those wildfires Palisades Malibu some of those beautiful areas in Southern, California Gutted by this fire due to just complete rampant incompetence we have seen at this point practically in my opinion because I know that you can build a house in two or three months if You really want to if you don't want to get it done. You can't there's been basically no progress at all I've seen a couple houses that you could just the framings up, but it's still it's most a lot of it hadn't been cleaned up yet It's a total disgrace, right? These people so I did an event last last Monday a week ago today was the six-month anniversary of these fires Which by the way happened because of their extreme policies and their incompetence in the first place They've done nothing Gavin Newsom promised a Marshall plan to rebuild LA Nothing's happened the one house that Karen Bass bragged about was a video It was a house that was approved before the fires. Yeah, there's nothing on Permitting like they promised nothing on rebuild fire prevention Common-sense things that would stop this kind of thing happening again defensible space around houses Making sure use fire resistant materials in the building code the trees the eucalyptus trees Which just fling up like their fire throws basically all these things Could and should have been done and they've done nothing instead Gavin Newsom spending his time trolling President Trump and JD Vance on social media and then bragging about that instead of doing his job And then and then the talk is that they want to put they want to put what? Government assisted housing in the middle all that let's drive down your property price. Yes, because it's part of their ideology War on single-family homes. Everyone's got to live in apartments above transit. No cars. I mean, it's just so far gone That's why I'm gonna win next year. People are sick of this sick of it, and I'm sure it's Every side of it is bad. I mean what it's done to property values everywhere else I mean you can't even afford a house in California anyway, exactly you get rid of all those It's so expensive to move to other other areas in that city now C Felton. Thanks for coming. We appreciate you. Thank you

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