Late-night host Stephen Colbert on Thursday rewrote the famous poem at the base of theStatue of Liberty to fit the President Trump era.

Give me your wealthy, your rich, your huddled MBAs yearning to be tax-free. Send these, the English-speaking, fully-insured to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door and lift my leg upon your filthy poor. P.S. No fatties please, Colbert read.

The "Late Show" host mockedWhite House aide Stephen Miller's appearance at Thursday's White House press briefing this week, during which he explained Trump's new immigration policy that would significantly cut legal immigration.

At the briefing, Millerfired back at a CNN reporter who asked how the new immigration policy would fit in with the iconic Statue of Liberty poem that includes the lines "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."

Miller retorted thatthe poem was added to the statue later and is not part of the original Statue of Liberty.

Colbert slammed the idea of a merit-based system for immigration.

Its kind of like Weight Watchers, but the goal is to lose brown people, he said.

Its the classic immigrant tale, he said. You come here at 28, speaking perfect English with a briefcase full of cash and a dream that if you work hard your kids might go to the same college you did.

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