This Is The Price We’re Paying For Biden’s Policies: Vivek Ramaswamy [WATCH]

Entrepreneur and Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy warned that years of federal immigration policy failures have fueled chaos across the country, arguing that restoring order now depends on firm state leadership and renewed cooperation between law enforcement agencies at every level.

In remarks addressing unrest and clashes over immigration enforcement, Ramaswamy said Americans broadly agree on the right to protest, but only within the bounds of the law.

“Look, I’d say a couple of things,” Ramaswamy said.

“Charlie, first is to state the obvious. Kevin, everything I’m about to say with the fact that we do have a constitutional right to criticize our government in this country and to protest peacefully. Most Americans agree on that. I stand for it, absolutely. But the operative word here is peacefully, because we are also a nation that is founded on the rule of law.”

Ramaswamy said those two principles—free expression and law enforcement—are not inherently opposed.

“Now those two things are not normally in conflict,” he said.

“They actually go together. Most Americans agree on that.”

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According to Ramaswamy, the breakdown came as a direct result of immigration policies under Joe Biden, which he said allowed millions of illegal immigrants to enter the country.

“But the thing that got in the way, and let’s just take a big step back here, the thing that got in the way and threw a wrench in that is, over four years under President Biden’s tenure, we had 10 plus million illegals enter this country,” Ramaswamy said.

“And in some way it was inevitable to see the chaos that ultimately was sowed by those seeds. So this is the price we’re paying for four years of those policies.”

Ramaswamy said the public expects cooperation between federal, state, and local authorities to address immigration and public safety, not obstruction driven by political leadership.

“What I will say is that what do most Americans expect?” he said.

“They want to see law enforcement at the federal level, at the state and local level, work collaboratively to solve that problem, instead of seeing state and local law enforcement thwarted the efforts of the federal government to solve a problem that they were elected to actually deliver.”

He placed particular responsibility on governors and mayors, arguing that political decisions at those levels can either reinforce or undermine public order.

“And when that happens, when you have local and state law enforcement and the people, more importantly, who direct them, the political leaders at the mayoral and Governor levels, people like Tim Walz, undermining that collaboration, that’s really when you get chaos,” Ramaswamy said.

Pointing to recent unrest in multiple states, Ramaswamy said the consequences of that breakdown are visible nationwide.

“And I think one of the most important lessons learned out of all of this, I say this as someone who’s running for governor in my home state of Ohio, is how important state leadership now is more than ever,” he said.

“Look at what’s happening on the streets of Minnesota. Look a few months ago, what was happening in the streets of Los Angeles and California.”

Ramaswamy said governors now play a decisive role in whether states restore order or descend further into disorder.

“State and local leadership now matters more than ever,” he said, “especially to align on a national common sense agenda of restoring the rule of law, and that’s what I stand for.”

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