https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/pol ... 004455001/
He has "clarified" his remarks by claiming that the Emma Lazarus poem was only about European immigrants.
When asked what he thinks America stands for, Cuccinelli said that the poem was referencing immigrants coming from Europe.
"Of course that poem was referring back to people coming from Europe where they had class-based societies, where people were considered wretched if they weren't in the right class," he said.
"It was written one year, one year, after the first federal public charge rule was written that says 'any person unable to take care of himself without being a public charge' would be inadmissible," he continued.
So yes, he literally thinks that the only immigrants we should welcome are white immigrants.