Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller joined Fox News host Jesse Watters on Jesse Watters Primetime this week to discuss U.S. immigration policy, arguing that a nation’s character and stability depend on the composition of its population.

Miller’s remarks come as the Trump administration continues to implement stronger border security measures and reverse several policies left over from the Biden-Harris administration.

“At the end of the day, what this really comes down to is this, Jesse: who lives in your country determines what your country is, right?” Miller said during the interview.

“Haiti doesn’t work as a country. It just doesn’t. People have tried forever. People spent billions of dollars trying to make Haiti work as a project. Haiti doesn’t work.”

Miller continued by saying that the same principle applies to other failed or unstable nations.

“If you take Haiti and you move it to America, it’s not going to work here. Somalia doesn’t work as a country, has never worked as a country. You take Somalia out of Somalia, you put it here, it’s not going to work any better,” he said.

He emphasized that his comments were not directed at individuals but at the larger impact of immigration policy.

“It’s not about how you feel about an individual immigrant. It’s about the policy at a systemic scale,” Miller said.

“If you move the third world to the first world, eventually we become the third world, and that’s not good for us. It’s not good for anybody who wants to live here in the future.”

.@StephenM: “Who lives in your country determines what your country is.”

“If you move the third world to the first world, eventually we become the third world, & that’s not good for us, & it’s not good for anybody who wants to live here in the future.” pic.twitter.com/6lpXYbemOM

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The remarks come as President Donald Trump’s administration continues a broad enforcement campaign aimed at curbing illegal immigration and dismantling open-border policies implemented during the Biden era.

Since returning to office, President Trump has directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to prioritize deportations of illegal aliens with criminal records, as well as to resume construction on key sections of the southern border wall.

Democrats have sharply criticized the administration’s stepped-up enforcement actions, calling them excessive.

Several Democratic governors and mayors have refused to cooperate with ICE, with some designating their cities as “sanctuary jurisdictions.”

Under the Biden-Harris administration, DHS had significantly expanded Temporary Protected Status (TPS) programs, including extensions for nationals from Haiti.

TPS was first granted to Haitians after the 2010 earthquake that devastated the country.

The program was meant to provide temporary relief for displaced individuals, but repeated extensions over the past decade effectively allowed many to remain indefinitely in the United States.

The Department of Homeland Security announced in February that it would end TPS protections for Haitians, which had covered approximately 520,000 people at the time.

DHS said the decision was part of a return to pre-Biden immigration policy that requires temporary programs to remain temporary.

Administration officials have said the goal of the new policy is to ensure immigration laws are applied consistently and to discourage continued mass migration from unstable nations.

President Trump’s team has also emphasized cooperation between federal and local law enforcement, allowing ICE and DHS to conduct joint operations across the country targeting individuals with criminal convictions or prior deportation orders.

Miller, who previously served as a senior policy advisor during President Trump’s first term, has been one of the key architects of the administration’s immigration agenda.

His comments on Jesse Watters Primetime echoed the broader message of the White House — that immigration policy should serve national interest and preserve the rule of law.