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WATCH: Stephen Miller Schools Jake Tapper On Illegal Immigration, Slaps Down ‘Farm Worker’ Myth
Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s architect of his nationwide purge of illegal immigrants, brought the receipts against CNN’s Jake Tapper during a recent interview that has MAGA fans celebrating his performance.
From the outset, Tapper attempted to bait Miller into a discussion over the merits of illegal immigrant labor in the agricultural industry, implying their participation leads to lower grocery prices. If Trump were to deport them, Tapper reasoned, grocery prices would go up, breaking a promise the Republican made to lower the cost of living for all Americans.
“In 2022, forty-two percent of crop workers were undocumented immigrants,” Tapper said on Tuesday. “In many cases, these migrants do jobs that many Americans do not want to do. So, how do you, how does President Trump, make sure that the effort to deport people who are not in this country legally doesn’t end up hurting Americans who want safe borders absolutely, but also don’t want to see even more higher prices in groceries?”
Miller, 39, immediately turned the table on the CNN anchor.
“I’m sure it’s not your position, Jake. You’re just asking the question that we should supply America’s food with exploitative illegal alien labor. I obviously don’t think that’s what you’re implying,” he replied with a straight face.
The immigration expert went on to state that the majority of newly arrived undocumented arrivals have made large urban centers their homes, not America’s heartlands.
“Only one percent of alien workers in the entire county work in agriculture. The top destination for illegal aliens are large cities like New York, like Los Angeles… none of those illegal aliens are doing farm work,” Miller continued, but Tapper wasn’t getting what he was after.
“You’re kind of changing the subject,” he interjected.
“No, no, no, no, no. Give me thirty minutes, and I’ll go as deep as you want,” Miller shot back, standing firm.
“There’s no universe in which this nation is going to allow the previous president to flood our nation with millions and millions of illegal aliens who just get to stay here, and we are especially not going to allow a subset of those illegal aliens to rape and murder our citizens.”
“We are going to unapologetically enforce our immigration laws,” he finished before Tapper ended the interview.
Benny Thompson was among the first to spot Miller’s interview, sharing it with this 3.4 million viewers while joking, “Want to see a murder on live TV?”
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Others on social media were equally ruthless, dragging Tapper for attempting to defend a system of undocumented exploitation.
“Tapper is promoting slave labor. Disgraceful,” one man replied to Thompson. Another agreed. “I truly can’t comprehend how people don’t see. They are supporting slave labor when they’re in favor of the illegal migration,” they replied.
“Jake Tapper had to Tap out after that take down,” conservative host Cash Loren joked.
