Top White House aide gets questioned on racial coding in new immigration policy, totally flips out [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Think Progress

Aug 2

“It shows your cosmopolitan bias!”




During the White House press briefing on Wednesday, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller went off on CNN’s Jim Acosta after Acosta pressed Miller about the racial implications of a new immigration bill backed by the Trump administration that gives English speakers preferred status.

Acosta, who mentioned that his father emigrated to the U.S. from Cuba in 1962 and obtained a Green Card, pointed out to Miller that “people who emigrate to this country — not through Ellis Island as your family may have but in others ways — do obtain a Green Card at some point, they do it through a lot of hard work, and yes, they may learn English as a second language later on in life, but this whole notion of, ‘Well, they have to learn English before they get to the United States’ — are we just going to bring in people from Great Britain and Australia?”

Acosta’s question caused Miller to quickly lose his cool.

“Jim, I have to honestly say, I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people form Great Britain and Australia would know English,” Miller said. “It’s actually — it reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree that in your mind — no, this is an amazing moment, this is an amazing moment — that you think only people from Great Britain or Australia would speak English is so insulting to millions of hard-working immigrants from all over the world.”

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