In a heated exchange, CNN’s Jim Acosta and White House aide Stephen Miller sparred over President Trump’s immigration policy. Acosta started his line of questioning citing the Emma Lazarus famous poem “The New Colossus,” which is memorialized on a bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.
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. The Statue of Liberty says, “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,” it doesn’t say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmer. Aren’t you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you’re telling them, you have to speak English, can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?
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