Bill Maher, John Leguizamo Clash Over Immigration: ‘Plenty Of Room In America’

Comedian Bill Maher and leftist actor John Leguizamo argued about immigration on a recent episode of his podcast.

Leguizamo accused White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller of being a racist for his role as “the architect” of Trump’s deportation policies, but Maher argued that the Biden administration is to blame for inviting the masses to enter unlawfully.

“Part of this is a backlash to how badly Biden handled the immigration situation. It can’t just be like ‘Come one, come all,’” he said during the new “Club Random with Bill Maher” episode that aired on Monday.

“There’s plenty of room here,” Leguizamo complained. “There’s plenty of room in America, come on. There’s no lack of room in America.”

“It’s never about room. It’s about resources,” Maher shot back. “Countries have to have a border,” he went on. “I mean, they’ve done surveys and something like 200 million people around the world when asked, ‘Would you come to America if you could?’ ‘Yes, I would.’ Why wouldn’t they? Lots of countries, excuse me, are sh**holes, and they would love to be here.”

“The places aren’t sh**holes,” Leguizamo said in response.

“Well, they are,” Maher replied. “That’s why they want to come.”

Leguizamo goes on to say that immigrants are “building the country” and doing all the jobs no one wants to do, which Maher agreed with, but says when it comes to immigration, “there has to be some order to it.” 

Leguizamo also discussed meeting Trump before his political career took off and said he took offense to being called “articulate.” The actor said he found Trump to be “meek.”  

“I wouldn’t call it meek,” Maher said. “What I would call it is knowing how to make everybody – it’s ironic because he’s known as the greatest egomaniac, and he is quite an egomaniac – but to make the person you’re talking to feel like they’re the ones who are important and you’re interested in what they’re saying. He’s good at that.”

Maher also said he didn’t believe that Trump was racist but just a “product of his time.”

“Some of us overcome our times,” Leguizamo said.

“That is true and fair to say,” Maher replied.

Maher, a Democrat, made headlines earlier this year for having dinner with Trump and sharing some of the more surprising aspects of their conversation. While Larry David whined about Maher accepting an invitation from “Hitler” and actor Sean Penn said he likely would have never agreed to the meeting, Maher kept an open mind and was pleasantly surprised.

He’s much more self-aware than he lets on in public,” the podcast host said at the time.