-The Trump administration has announced a new rule
that would limit legal immigration
by imposing a wealth test.
For more on this it's time for "A Closer Look."
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Trump has many racist conspiracy theories about immigrants.
He thinks they're being funded by shadowy groups.
He thinks it's a plot to invade America
and he's pretty sure at least one of his sons
snuck in from Transylvania.
[ Laughter ] [as Trump] Secret Service,
he's out of his coffin again.
[ Laughter ]
Trump also has his insane theory that other countries
are somehow rigging the visa lottery system,
to put their worst people in the lottery.
He's repeated it many times,
including at a rally earlier this month.
-How about the lottery system?
[ Booing ]
How about lotteries?
You put the name in a basket.
The country puts the name in the basket
and you pick people out of the lottery.
Well, let's see, "This one's a murderer.
[ Laughter ] This one robbed four banks.
This one, I'd better not say.
This one, another murderer."
Ladies and gentlemen, another murderer.
-It sounds like he's picking his cabinet.
[ Laughter ] [as Trump] Bank robber.
[ Cheering and applause ] Oh, a murderer.
Oh, oh, you guys.
[ Cheering and applause ]
You guys, we got a cannibal.
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
But, Trump continued.
-Think of this:
Do you think they're gonna put their great citizens?
They have great citizens.
They have great people, like we have great people.
Do you think those people are going into a lottery?
No. And then, we get these people coming in.
You just take a look.
Look at the people they put into these lotteries.
-That's not how it works.
Countries don't put people in the lotteries.
[ Laughter ] People enter themselves
and it's not murderers, saying,
"The police are closing in!
I better make my escape, by entering a random drawing."
[ Laughter ]
This is one of Trump's favorite insane conspiracy theories
and he's repeated it countless times throughout his presidency.
-They have a lottery.
You pick people.
You think the country's givin' us their best people?
No. Visa lottery!
Visa lottery!
Boom. Who is this?! Who is this?
And then, when they turn out to be not so good,
we say, "I wonder why."
Well, maybe the country's giving us
their worst in those lotteries.
Does that make any sense?
Think of it: A lottery!
You pick people.
Now, let me ask you.
So, these countries that are sending people in.
Do you think they're sending us their finest?
And then, we wonder why we have problems.
We're not going to be
a stupid country anymore!
-Anh, we're still very much the stupid country.
[ Laughter and applause ] Stupid is our brand.
Obama made us cool. You made us stupid.
One of the other problems here is,
unlike more complicated terms,
Trump thinks he knows what a lottery is,
so, even though he's wrong, he's trying to flex his muscles.
I'm surprised he didn't just start talking
about scratch-offs, at some point.
[as Trump] And they give you a card
and you use a dime, ideally.
Worst case, your thumb,
and you just start scratching and, if you get
three matching flags, that's your new home.
[ Laughter and applause ]
That's how it works in a [bellowing] lottery!
A visa lottery.
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Trump feeds his supporters these racist conspiracy theories
to make them think that undeserving immigrants
are coming here and draining our public resources,
which is a bigoted lie.
And, now, he's taking that lie one step further,
by implementing a new rule that will basically institute
a wealth test, in order to limit legal immigration.
-A major policy change by the Trump administration
is trying to dramatically limit legal immigration into the U.S.
The so-called public charge rule
would make it more difficult for people who are, again,
here legally, but rely on some form of government assistance.
Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers, some of the examples.
It would make it harder for them to get a green card.
The new criteria favors wealthier,
more educated immigrants.
The National Immigration Law Center calls the new rule
a wealth test on immigrants.
[ Rotors whirring ] -I don't think it's fair to have
the American taxpayer pay
for people to come into the United States.
I'm tired of seeing our taxpayer
paying for people to come into the country
and immediately go onto welfare and various other things,
so I think we're doing it right.
-So, now, you're suddenly concerned
about wasting taxpayers' money?
You've already spent more than $100 million,
just on golf trips.
[ Laughter ] And I have one very simple fix for this.
We don't need to stop paying for his golf.
We just need to stop paying for his golf cart
because just imagine how fast he would lose interest
if he had to walk. [as Trump] This sucks.
[ Laughter ] I'm gonna play a sport
where you don't have to move so much,
like grass luge.
[ Laughter and clapping ]
This is fundamentally antithetical
to everything that America's supposed to stand for.
In fact, that ethos is famously etched
on the Statue of Liberty
in the Emma Lazarus poem "The New Colossus."
Yesterday, Trump's acting director
of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services,
Ken Cuccinelli, was asked on NPR
about that poem and said this.
-Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus's words,
etched on the Statue of Liberty, "Give me your tired, your poor,"
are also part of the American ethos?
-They certainly are.
"Give me your tired and your poor"
who can stand on their own two feet
[ Laughter ] and who will not become
a public charge.
-First of all, you can't just rewrite the poem!
[ Laughter ] Especially a poem on a plaque.
Once it's on a plaque, it's the thing.
[ Laughter ]
The sign says "No smoking,"
not "No smoking, but also smoking."
[ Laughter ]
Second, you want them to stand on their own two feet?
Trump can't stand on his two feet.
[ Laughter ] Look at him. He's like a drunk guy,
tryin' real hard to pretend he's sober.
[ Clapping ] Trump is doing this
for two reasons: one, he's a racist
and racism is at the core of his immigration policy.
And two, he can't deliver on any of the other promises
he's made to voters.
That's why his administration inflicts cruelty
on desperate migrant families,
like when they conducted the largest single-state
immigration raid in history last week
and separated children from their parents.
Meanwhile, he can't actually do anything
to help the people he promised to help:
the so-called forgotten men and women of America,
the working class he claimed he championed.
He told them he'd fix everything and that it would be so easy.
You know, like healthcare.
-We're gonna get you something so good.
So much less expensive, so much better.
You know what it's called? It's better and less expensive.
That's a good combination.
You're going to have such great healthcare,
at a tiny fraction of the cost, and it's gonna be so easy.
-As a general rule, never take advice from a guy
in a camouflage hat with orange font because...
[ Laughter ] it's a weird choice.
I mean, I get the orange, but not the words, you know?
You've never seen a hunter going into the woods
in camo gear with bright orange writing that says,
"I am a hunter." [ Laughter ]
Now, a universal healthcare system
that guarantees healthcare as a human right
is possible, as many industrialized nations
and Democrats running for president have shown,
but Trump made the promise
without having any clue what he was talking about
and then, of course, once it came time
to come up with an actual plan,
like any con artist, he tried to talk in circles
until people forgot what he'd promised.
This will be a plan where you can choose your doctor.
This will be a plan where you can choose your plan.
-[Chuckling] -And you know what the plan is?
This is the plan. -Oh my God.
He always sounds like he's playing Taboo
and he can't think of a second clue
that's not [indistinct]
[as Trump] Uh, it's a plan, you know.
Like a plan. A plan. It's a plan.
You know, a plan! [ Buzzer ]
The word was plan. I was cheating.
[ Laughter and clapping ]
I was cheating the whole time.
Then, there was Trump's promise to save manufacturing jobs.
During a stop in Ohio two years ago,
he told residents he would singlehandedly
save their manufacturing plants.
In fact, he literally told the people at his rally
who were worried about losing their jobs not to move.
-I rode through your beautiful roads,
coming up from the airport and I was --
I was lookin' at some of those big, once incredible,
job-producing factories.
And my wife, Melania, said, "What happened?"
I said, "Those jobs have left Ohio."
They're all comin' back.
[ Cheering and applause ] They're all comin' back.
[ Whistling ] Comin' back.
[ Applause ]
Don't move.
Don't sell your house. Don't sell your house.
-If Donald Trump, a man who has gone bankrupt six times
and is infamous for some of the biggest
real estate disasters in history,
tells you don't sell your house, sell your house.
[ Laughter and applause ] Trump is --
Trump is the kind of guy who would tell people,
during a tornado,
[as Trump] "You definitely wanna be by a window.
[ Laughter ] Be by a window,
so you can see it. Sometimes they have cows inside.
[ Laughter and applause ]
Once again, you'll never guess what happened.
A plant nearby, in Lordstown, closed in March.
Then, when the cruel reality of Trump's empty promises
came crashing down on the workers he promised to help,
all Trump could do was offer a useless tweet.
And, once again, he clearly had no idea how
to deliver on his promise.
-"Just spoke to Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors,
about the Lordstown, Ohio, plant.
I am not happy that it is closed
when everything else in our country is booming.
I asked her to sell it or do something quickly.
She blamed the UAW union.
I don't care. I just want it open.
-Hey, ass[bleep], you told them not to sell their homes.
A tweet whining that you're not happy isn't good enough.
It's like if your buddy told you to invest everything you have
in Bitcoin and, then, when it crashed, sent you a text
that was just a dollar emoji and a surprise face.
[ Laughter and clapping ]
Also, what do you mean,
"I asked her to do something"?
Do what? You're the guy
who said you were gonna save the jobs.
You're supposed to have the ideas.
Like a plumber who shows up and takes a look at your toilet,
and then just screams, "Unclog!"
[ Laughter ]
[ Applause ]
By the way, that plant in Ohio is far from alone.
In fact, just two weeks ago, GM idled another plant
in Michigan, which might come as a shock
to people who were at these Trump rallies
in Michigan in 2016.
-I've been saying: Your car industry's
being sucked away from Michigan.
It's happening.
If I'm elected, you won't lose one plant.
You'll have plants coming into this country.
You're gonna have jobs again.
You won't lose one plant.
I promise you that.
[ Cheering and applause ] I promise you that.
So all I say is this: You wanna build your plant
in Mexico, have a great time.
But if you think you're gonna ship your product
across the border -- which will be a very strong border,
by the way -- for no tax, no nothing.
So we end up with unemployment
and we end up with empty plants and factories.
And you end up with the money, the jobs, and the plants.
You can forget it.
And you know what would happen?
If you said that right upfront, nobody's leaving, folks.
You stop it right away.
The politicians don't wanna say that
because most of them are too stupid to even understand it.
-They're too stupid?
Dude, you're too stupid to spell the word country,
your wife's name, and your own name.
[ Laughter and applause ] I mean,
imagine if this guy
tried meeting his own immigration standards.
He has no discernible skills, lost $1 billion,
and can't spell his own name.
He'd flunk the citizenship test
before he even got to the first question.
[ Laughter ]
Trump inflicts cruelty on desperate migrants
fleeing poverty and violence because, first, he's a racist
and racism is at the core of his ideology.
And second, he's failed at literally everything else
he's promised to do.
You need a plan to expand healthcare,
save manufacturing jobs.
You can't just do it by tweeting
or yelling at people, but Trump is...
-Too stupid to even understand it.
-This has been "A Closer Look."
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