Michael Smerconish Cracks Up At Thought of Trump Aid Stephen Miller ‘Working On His Knees Picking Cantaloupe’

Randy Carter, a TV and film producer in Los Angeles, told CNN’s Michael Smerconish about a 1965 government experiment he participated in while in high school to see if American teens could thrive picking crops in California’s 120-heat as industriously as Mexican migrant workers.

“What you have to remember is the growers hated this program,” Carter said. “They wanted their Mexicans, the Mexicans that sleep in their cars. They don’t complain. You don’t have to provide toilets or stuff. Now, suddenly, you have middle class white teenagers doing the work.”

“Now, you did that job for six weeks. I give you credit for it,” Smerconish said. “But what do you think about the contemporary debate as to, ‘Well, if we simply paid people more, they’d go into the fields.'”

“These jobs can be done, but do you think — you mentioned the secretary of agriculture…there’s a secretary of labor — Do you think their mouths would ever form the sentence, ‘Adequate wages and safe working conditions’? So yeah, I can cross Sunset Blvd. at rush hour, but if the traffic doesn’t stop, I’m going to get killed. So, unless these jobs pay adequately and there’s protection for the workers — how about unionizing them? Then the union provides the workers. So, those part of the equations are never mentioned.”

Carter said the job gave him “such a great understanding of Mexican labor, what it really takes to do these jobs. So when we hear, ‘Oh, they’re rapists and criminals,’ we kind of go, I don’t think so. I know we did it for six weeks. They do it for a lifetime.”

Smerconish said he learned about Carter and his student co-workers in an L.A. Times article, where Carter also mentioned he wrote a script about his experience.

“Sometimes on these newspapers, there’s comments,” Carter said. “The number one comment is, everybody wants to see Stephen Miller in my movie, working on his hands and knees, picking cantaloupes.”

The very suggestion of Miller — a top Trump aide and architect of the president’s deportation program — doing the work of Mexican immigrants was too much for Smerconish, who broke into laughter.

Watch the clip above via CNN.