Stephen Miller hits reporter over ‘cosmopolitan bias’ in heated exchange

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Stephen Miller duked it out with CNN’s Jim Acosta Wednesday over immigration figures and charged that the CNN White House reporter holds a “cosmopolitan bias,” and called his suggestion that the bill is racist “so insulting.”

Miller, a White House senior policy adviser, made the charge after Acosta floated the idea of the White House only allowing immigrants into the U.S. from Great Britain and Australia because they can speak English. That was on criterion in a plan Trump endorsed aimed at giving green cards mostly to skilled immigrants who speak English, and to avoid taking in low-skilled workers that depress wages for U.S. citizens.

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