Domenico Montanaro

The tariffs case clearly important to him, right?

I mean, he uses tariffs as leverage for foreign policy.

He uses it for everything that you can think of saying that it's going to generate revenue, et cetera, et cetera.

But what's the thing that he finds most important that he had to be at the Supreme Court for is

It's about immigration and not just about immigration, but about, again, who should be American, who in the future as going forward, what will that mean?

Because of the demographic shifts in this country and the change overwhelmingly that we've seen over the last 30 years, well, Latinos in particular, the largest growing immigrant group have meant that the white majority in the country is soon to be fading and going away.

Right now, it's only about 52%, 53% white majority in the country.

Already, those under 18 are a majority minority, a majority non-white.

And so even if you built a wall and you said that anybody who was born here to immigrants in the country illegally could not get citizenship, there would still be a white minority in this country in the coming decades.

And that is something that has been at the heart

of what the conservatives and right-wing hardliners in this country have wanted to get rid of because this change they feel like is shifting the country in a way that they don't think is what America should be.

And I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and correspondent.

Well, obviously, immigration has always been a huge animating factor for him and for his base.

I mean, it was one of the first things he talked about when he launched his political campaign in 2015.

And here we are, you

It's really still the thing.

And coming into the second term for Trump, they really had a very clear agenda on dealing with immigration.

And it was less about him trying to understand what the White House meant or how to figure out power.

He came in on day one and had an executive order.

about wanting to undo birthright citizenship.