CNN’s Jim Acosta & Trump’s Senior Adviser Stephen Miller clash over threats of slashing legal immigration

CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta clashed with White House Senior Adviser Stephen Miller at the press briefing Wednesday over President Donald Trump's support for legislation that would curb the level of legal immigration to the United States, by instituting a skills-based immigration system.
 
Invoking the famous poem inscribed in the base of Statue of Liberty which beckons the world's "tired ... poor ... huddled masses yearning to breathe free" to America's shores, Acosta asked Miller if the White House was "trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country."
 
"It doesn't say anything about speaking English," pressed Acosta. "Aren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this country if you are telling them they have to speak English?"
 
Miller argued that speaking English is already a requirement for people seeking to become naturalized Americans, and dismissed Acosta's citation of the words on the Statue of Liberty, saying they were a later addition to the statue.