Trump then transitioned into his trademark fallback when his crowd starts to get bored—getting white people scared about brown people. A few months ago, he was finding that bringing up MS-13 gang members was doing the trick, but now he’s moved on to the “caravan” of 200 or so Central American families who plan on surrendering to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents in order to begin their asylum claims, and accusing them of gaming complex immigration laws:

“And our laws are so corrupt and so stupid. I call them the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on earth. If a person puts their foot over the line, we have to take them into our country, we have to register them [the crowd boos], we then have to ask them a couple of questions, lawyers are telling them what to say, how unsafe they are, and once they say that, we have to let them go to come back to court in like a year. Only one problem: They don’t come back. Ok, that’s the end. Welcome to the United States.”

Again, these are women and kids escaping violence and political persecution he’s referring to, and though “international law requires that the U.S. consider asylum claims,” according to immigration attorney David Leopold, CBP agents are claiming they’re too full to process 200 people, leading many to camp out at the border until they can be seen. They’ve come to far to turn back now.

Trump has already used his Twitter account to instruct agents to flat-out bar these families without processing them—again, in violation of international law—and they’ve been listening. “ICE can sweep up 1,000 for deportation,” one organizer said, “but can’t accommodate a few hundred asylum seekers.” America, once the shining city upon a hill, now slamming the door shut on the persecuted. Where’s the pearl-clutching from Christian conservatives and press on this?

Ultimately, Trump transitioned to praising ICE agents as “great people,” falsely claiming that undocumented immigrants will only “vote for Democrats”—fact check: THEY CAN’T VOTE AT ALL—and that “we need the wall… and if we don’t get border security, we’ll have no choice—we’ll close down the country.” But then again, we’re hearing that a comic calling out the powerful to their faces about their lies—and the media that keeps enabling them—is what apparently lacked civility.