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In a discussion of President Trump's plan to overhaul green card immigration policy, White House senior advisor, Stephen Miller, gets into a heated exchange with CNN's Jim Acosta.JA: What the President is proposing here does not sound like it's in keeping withit doesn't say anything about speaking English or being able to be a computer programmeraren't you trying to change what it means to be an immigrant coming into this countryif you are telling them, "you have to speak English, "can't people learn how to speak English when they get here"SM:Well, first of all, right now, it's a requirement that be naturalized, you had to speak english so the notion that speaking English wouldn't be a part of our immigration system would be actually very a-historicalsecondly, I don't want to get off into a whole thing about history here, butthe Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty enlightening the world, it's a symbol of American liberty lighting the worldthe poem that you're referring to was added later, it's not actually part of the original Statue of LibertyJA:wants to build a wall, you want to bring about a sweeping change to the immigrationSM:you don't actually think that a wall affects green card policyyou couldn't possibly believe that, do you? actuallythe notion that you actually think immigration is at a historic lullthe foreign born population of the United States todayJim, do you really?serious Jim, do really at CNN not know the difference between green card policy and illegal immigrationi mean, you really don't know that?JA:green card, yes, people who immigrate to the country can eventuallyeventually, people who immigrate to this country, through, not through but in other ways, do obtain a green card at some pointthey do it through a lot of hard work a yes they may learn English as a second language later on in lifebut this whole notion of well they have to learn English...