CNN’s Acosta and Stephen Miller Battle Over Immigration: You’re Engineering ‘Racial and Ethnic Flow of People!’
CNN’s Jim Acosta sparred with White House advisor Stephen Miller in a seriously heated back-and-forth over immigration.
Acosta told Miller, “What you’re proposing or what the President’s proposing here does not sound like it’s in keeping with American tradition when it comes to immigration.”
He quoted the words on the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses” and asked Miller if he’s “trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country.”
Miller pushed back by saying the words were “added later” and things got even more heated from there.
Acosta at one point asked, in talking about the “press 1 for English philosophy,” “Are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?” Miller said he was “shocked” by the statement and said it shows his “cosmopolitan bias.” And then this happened:
MILLER: That you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hardworking immigrants who do speak English from all over the world. Jim, have you honestly never met an immigrant from another country who speaks English outside of Great Britain and Australia? Is that your personal experience?
ACOSTA: Of course there are people who come in from other parts of the world.
MILLER: That’s not what you said and it shows your cosmopolitan bias.
ACOSTA: It just sounds like you’re trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country.
MILLER: That is one of the most outrageous, ignorant, insulting, and foolish things you’ve ever said.
Watch the whole thing above, via CNN.
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