If it passes, it would halve the number of immigrants entering the U.S. legally.
Can’t people learn how to speak English when they get here?"
Then, he went on to dismiss Acosta’s reference to the Statue of Liberty inscription.
“The poem that you’re referring to was added later.
It’s not actually a part of the original Statue of Liberty.”
“That sounds like some National Parks revisionism,” Acosta retorted.
The statue was completed in 1886, and a plaque featuring the poem was mounted in 1903.)
posited Acosta, whose father immigrated from Cuba in the 1960s.
“It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree.
The notion that you think this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting.”
“I apologize, Jim, if things got heated,” Miller said.
“But you did make some pretty rough insinuations.”
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