First, I doubt he’s lying his ass off, unless recent sightings show decreased girth.
Second, he could try telling the truth: that this is a paid stunt and his dead-eyed goon has already drafted anti-immigrant legislation that does not require congressional approval. As commented on another topic, it’s not as if the majority of pale “common clay of the New West” are overly encumbered by critical thinking.
Do white American voters actually think, following the news for the past twenty months that there are tiered legislations for immigrants? That deportation actions and citizenship blocks happen only to asylum seekers, “swarthy people”, seasonal labourers? What legitimate news agencies are conditioning Americans to imagine this? Do white voters fear that recent arrivals will do to them what their ancestors did to indigenous people in the cause of manifest destiny?
What I am given to understand on this forum from activity on political topics is that some citizens find it easier to snarkily address people whose protections are dissolving under this current administration than to apologize to those people for not caring enough to prevent the administration in the first place.