# Matt Walsh — "use whatever force is necessary" > [!quote] "Now that [the Supreme Court] has opened the floodgates for foreign invaders to flock across our borders and spawn, the only choice we have is to triple down on immigration enforcement. Militarize the border. Mass deportations. Round every illegal up. Don't pull back when the lesbian activists start screeching about it. Use whatever force is necessary. There is no other option." > — Matt Walsh, reacting to *Trump v. Barbara*, June 30, 2026 ## Context Posted on **June 30, 2026**, hours after the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and struck down [[Executive Order 14160]] in [[Trump v. Barbara]]. [[Matt Walsh]] — the [[The Daily Wire]] commentator — treated the constitutional defeat not as a settled legal question but as a mandate to escalate: the loss in court becomes the argument for force outside it. The "spawn" and "foreign invaders" language is invasion rhetoric ([[Invasion Rhetoric Through Time]]) applied to newborn U.S. citizens; "use whatever force is necessary" is open advocacy for extralegal state violence in immigration enforcement. > [!warning] Sourcing note > The verbatim wording of this quote comes from Heather Cox Richardson's June 30, 2026 *Letters from an American*, which attributes it to "right-wing podcast host Matt Walsh" without naming the platform. Independent contemporaneous reporting (Mediaite, Salon, The New Republic) documents a *separate* Walsh reaction the same day on **X** — calling the ruling "catastrophic" and "idiotic" and branding Justice Amy Coney Barrett a "DEI hire" — but does not reproduce the "foreign invaders / spawn / use whatever force is necessary" passage. The passage is therefore attributed here **per HCR's letter**, with the exact platform unconfirmed; venue is recorded as a social-post pending a primary-source link. ## Why this matters This is Walsh saying the quiet part loud in the same register the KB tracks under [[The Violence Is the Point]]: not the euphemism of "enforcement" but the naked call to "use whatever force is necessary." It is the **demand-side** counterpart to the defense-tech founders' lethality candor — where they valorize the appetite for violence in war, Walsh valorizes it in domestic immigration enforcement, framing a Supreme Court loss as license. It pairs directly against [[John Coughenour - blatantly unconstitutional]]: the Reagan-appointed judge who called the underlying order lawless, and the pundit who answers a lawful ruling with a call for force. Together they bracket the two poles of the reaction to [[Trump v. Barbara]]. Walsh had **zero prior Quotes/ receipts** in the vault; this is his first, and it is an explicit force-advocacy statement rather than a merely provocative one. ## Verification - **Primary text as quoted:** [Heather Cox Richardson, *Letters from an American*, June 30, 2026](https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-30-2026). - **Corroborating same-day reaction (different post):** [Mediaite](https://www.mediaite.com/media/the-daily-wires-matt-walsh-brands-amy-coney-barrett-a-dei-hire-after-latest-ruling-against-trump/); Salon; The New Republic. - **Status:** Wording undisputed as quoted by HCR; platform/primary-source link unconfirmed (see sourcing note). ## Related quotes - [[John Coughenour - blatantly unconstitutional]] — the judicial pole of the same birthright-citizenship fight. ## See also - [[Matt Walsh]] — the speaker - [[Trump v. Barbara]] — the decision he was reacting to - [[The Violence Is the Point]] — the adjacent pattern of naming and valorizing violence