Richard Grenell, President Donald Trump’s envoy for special missions, defended the White House’s decision to revoke and deny visas to people who celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, telling Newsmax on Friday that immigration is a privilege, not a right.
“Are you somebody who gets to come to our country?” Grenell told Newsmax’s Jason Mattera at CPAC Paraguay on Friday. “It’s a privilege. There’s 100 million people who want to come into our country. Not everybody gets to. And so we have to have standards. And I think being a good human should be a standard.”
The public celebration of political violence, such as the assassination in Utah of conservative leader and co-founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk, marks a dangerous cultural decline and must be met with stronger condemnation from leaders on the left, Grenell added.
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