That exchange between Steven Miller and the CNN news anchor is the reason we are here today.
It is more than misdirection. The CNN guy is trying to make an argument, Steven Miller (ultimately Trump) is spewing rhetoric and snake oil.
"Should we allow uncontrolled immigration???" Miller asks.
Everything after that is ignored by the alt-right. The left just lost at that point. They don't know why and no it isn't "fair" but they lost all the same. The left is playing chess, the right is playing checkers. The left is trying to win an intelligent debate, the right is spewing empty rhetoric.
This is why both sides look at that clip and laugh, but for completely different reasons. This is why we have a country divided.
Accosta "isn't forcing people to speak English racist?" (it is)
Miller "you're allowing unlimited and unfettered access to this country" (straw man argument, but that's why they win).
You just lost Joe Sixpack middle America. Joe has had nothing but right wing media telling him about the problems in Sweden and how the reason Joe is unemployed is Mexicans and Muslim refugees (refugees make up such a tiny % of the population they don't even matter).
This is why I hate CNN and why they've done more to put Trump in power than anyone else.
Trump made immigration policy the red herring. Trump's entire ideals are based on the idea that our refugee and immigration system previously was terribly flawed. When you let him (and his people) straw man that argument and not respond to it, you just lost. Trump invented the problem, and now is inventing the solution. Mix in a bunch of xenophobia and boom. He wins. His policies make sense to someone who doesn't think on them too hard.
The reality is that while our immigration policy is not perfect, it is simply not the issue Trump makes it out to be. Nobody questions this though. We let Trump and his cronies set the agenda and set the straw man up so that their xenophobic ideas are now the solution.