Carolina QuotesAcosta: This whole notion of 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? Miller: I am shocked at your statement, that you think only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English. It actually reveals your cosmopolitan, er, bias, to a shocking degree, that in your mind... No, this an amazing moment... Acosta: It sounds like you're trying to engineer the racial and ethnic flow of people into this country through this policy. Miller: Jim, that is one of the most outrageous, insulting, ignorant and foolish things you've ever said, and for you that's still a really... The notion that you think that this is a racist bill is so wrong and so insulting.
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Questioned by CNN's Jim Acosta during a briefing on legislation that would seek to curtail legal immigration and create a new points-based green card system (August 2, 2017); "Trump Adviser, Reporter Clash Over Immigration", Associated Press, YouTube (August 3, 2017)
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