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What is the future look like? >> thank you. i migrated to america from jamaica, so i know firsthand what it entails to work hard, and see my parents work hard as immigrants to this great nation. i took the test to become a citizen and i love this great nation. for me, injecting myself into this conversation is about uniting the fight in washington, d.c., to keep america great, as our president has rallied for throughout his tenure so far. we need to focus on issues, that we want to roll out as i wrote my campaign. >> harris: can ask you something? i know this is putting you on the spot in your...

Prepare kids to become the best americans, who go to work, who own small businesses, who are the bedrock of what we see in communities all throughout this country. and for him to try to disparj and insul overwhelmingly majority part of the state of maryland and city of baltimore is completely unacceptable. and that's why i think you saw many folks in baltimore city speak out against president trump earlier today. >> speaker pelosi calls the president's comments racist. what would you call them? >> racist. i mean, i think that since he has taken office either he has teetered the line of being...

Here's the argument. too many republicans are choosing convenience over conscience. more gop-ers have supported this president's racist comments than those who have outright condemned them. so they are now complicit in the latest iteration of one of the oldest dirty plays in our political history. and here it is. >> if you hate our country, if you're not happy here, you can leave. >> go back. go back goes way back. 170 years ago the immigrant population doubled. it was the first big influx of newcomers since the country's founding. it sparked a new party. the no nothings. they healtated immigr...

>> i was born actually in martinique, so i am an immigrant myself. i've heard it all my life. i think if you're a person of color living in this country, you've heard that awful, historical, nasty, racist talking point that donald trump threw out there in a tweet on sunday and doubled down on monday, and it is hurtful. and it basically is saying to you, you do not belong -- we do not want you here. even though you are as american as anyone else, even though you give to society, this is the only place that you may have known, like myself, and what he did really, really lays out who he truly is....

Color living in this country, you've heard that awful, historical, nasty, racist talking point that donald trump threw out there in a tweet on sunday and doubled down on monday, and it is hurtful. and it basically is saying to you, you do not belong -- we do not want you here. even though you are as american as anyone else, even though you give to society, this is the only place that you may have known, like myself, and what he did really, really lays out who he truly is. >> and ezra, other populations throughout our history, immigrant population, jewish population, irish, italian, they all he...