Republican commentator Ana Navarro got in a heated argument with CNN colleague and Trump supporter Jeffrey Lord on Wednesday's broadcast of Anderson Cooper 360.



Remarking on Trump's plan to reform the legal immigration process Navarro said, "You know, Jeff, it must be so nice to be a white male."



"I want to address what is assimilation," Lord said. My mother is Irish on her side of the family. So, you know, what, on Saint Patrick's Day I have corn beef and cabbage and maybe a green beer. Trust me, I'm not Irish, I'm an American. That's the point. There is no one in America whose an American citizen. Donald Trump. He's German."



"We have to move past this and not do a thing where we are in essence resegregating the country. That's a bad thing," Lord added.



"It must be so nice to be a white male," the CNNer said. "What makes us wonderful here in America is that I can go celebrate St. Patrick's Day and that you can celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Or that you can celebrate September 15th (Mexican Independence Day). And that does not define being American."



In the panel that included New York Times columnist Charles Blow, Navarro said nobody engages in identity politics more than President Trump.



"My concern is that we have, with all this business of identifying communities, this community, that community, etc., etc., etc., with all the emphasis on that, that it keeps people from assimilating into the larger American culture," Lord said.



"Nobody does more identity politics than Donald Trump," Navarro said. "The guy who came down, announced he was running for president and called Mexicans rapists. Nobody does more identity politics than the guy who called for the Muslim ban. Nobody does more identity politics than the guy who tweets against transgenders. So if you want there to be no identity politics, my request to you is to start by telling the president you support regardless of what he does to stop doing it himself."



Blow told Lord "white people literally invented the racial caste system in this country."



"Literally invented it in order to advantage themselves and disadvantage others," he added.



"And then they all became Democrats," Lord shot back.



"Okay, you can go with that if you want to," Blow responded.