CA governor candidate Steve Hilton says ‘everybody supports’ Trump’s immigration policies
In some polls in the race for California governor, as the June primary draws closer, Republican and former Fox News host Steve Hilton is leading.
Hilton, a small business owner, was born in the United Kingdom, where he served as director of strategy for former Prime Minister David Cameron, then moved to California in 2012.
Eyewitness News caught up with Hilton near the Figueroa Corridor, a notorious hub of human trafficking.
“If you look at the foster care system in particular, it’s been terribly mismanaged. It’s not about money. It’s about making sure that we’re doing proper audits of the homes that kids go into,” Hilton said. “If we can’t even trample a hundred girls sold for sex every night on a street in Los Angeles, what are we doing here?”
Hilton blames climate change policies for California’s housing and affordability crisis, saying those policies have made construction more expensive. He added that he doesn’t believe climate change played a role in last year’s destructive and deadly wildfires.
“This is a complete failure of Democratic policy, and blaming it all on climate change is an insult to everyone who lost their homes,” Hilton said.
Eyewitness News political reporter Josh Haskell asked Hilton if he supports President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement tactics.
“Everyone supports — I can’t imagine a single person who doesn’t support what’s been done to close our southern border and end this absolutely outrageous undermining of the law that we’ve seen in the Biden years. I’m a legal immigrant, and I’ve said many times, I’m the candidate of the legal immigrant community for the legal immigrant community,” Hilton said.
When it comes to the homeless, Hilton blames Sacramento for failing to fund Proposition 36 after it passed, which increases penalties for people convicted of certain drug or theft-related crimes.
Hilton is neck and neck with another Republican in the race, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco.
“If we end up with two Democrats in the top two in the system, that’s a disaster for California. That means there’s no chance of change,” Hilton said. “We are going to continue with this one-party rule that has been such a failure and has hurt so many people.”
The primary elections will take place on June 2. If a candidate does not receive more than 50% of the vote, the top two finishers, regardless of political party, will advance to the November election.
