Former “Daily Show” correspondent Al Madrigal returned on Thursday night with a stinging message about immigrants in the United States.
“America doesn’t have an immigration policy,” he told Ronny Chieng, who is hosting this week. “America has immigration reactions.”
Madrigal, the show’s “senior Latino correspondent,” explained by ticking off a list of overt hypocrisies.
“We don’t know what we want from immigrants. We want to keep them away from our kids, but we also want them to raise our kids,” he pointed out. “They can’t have our health care, but we depend on them for affordable lawn care. We hate drug trafficking. But we love drugs, man.”
He did have one piece of advice given President Donald Trump’s crackdown on migrants.
“So until we have actual policy, immigrants are gonna have to lay low for 1,458 days,” he said. “But who’s counting?”
See more in the Thursday night “Daily Show” monologue: