Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said President Trump's immigration proposal is about changing rules to make it easier to deport the parents of DREAMers, children brought to the U.S. illegally by their parents, and to "stop more people from coming."



Gutierrez said Trump's claim in his State of the Union address that legal immigrants or DREAMers granted legal status will be able to bring in "unlimited" people is an "outright bald-faced lie." Gutierrez said Trump is making this claim "to continue this sense of fear" that "they're coming."



The outgoing Congressman said The Wall is really about stopping legal immigration and "people of color" from coming to the United States.











"Look, Chris, we should spend five minutes one night, we can't do it tonight, and let's see what countries get eliminated, and you know what we're going to find? We are going to find China, South Korea, India, the Philippines, South Korea, Mexico and El Salvador, what do all those countries have in common? Well, they have in common people of color that come to the United States of America, and that's what he wants to stop," Gutierrez claimed.



"So he says it's about crime, right? But it's really not. He said it's about a border and building a fence and building a wall. But it's not. It's about stopping legal immigration so that people like me, people like my mom who came to this country can't come here anymore," he said.



Gutierrez said there is "absolutely no doubt" that Trump's immigration plan is an "explicitly racial prject" to preserve "the whiteness of the country."



"So you're saying this explicitly is a racial project. You believe that the president wants to preserve, essentially the whiteness of the country and that that is what is motivating his immigration rhetoric and policy," Hayes asked the Congressman.



"There is absolutely no doubt," Gutierrez responded. "Look, here's one thing. When we went into court to kind of prove that the Latinos in Chicago deserve, right, were being discriminated against in the remapping, here's what we didn't have to prove. We didn't have to prove what their thinking was, right, we didn't have to prove that they explicitly said racist things in creating the congressional -- what we had to prove was, what? "