--- title: John Oliver, Stephen Colbert on Immigration Under Trump description: John Oliver may be concerned about being deported, but that isn't stopping him from speaking out against Donald Trump's immigration order. canonical: https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-08T18:13:23.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:40:56.367Z og:title: Watch John Oliver Discuss Immigration With Stephen Colbert og:description: "Having a green card used to be enough" og:url: https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch John Oliver Discuss Immigration With Stephen Colbert twitter:description: "Having a green card used to be enough" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch John Oliver Discuss Immigration With Stephen Colbert: 'Having a Green Card Used to Be Enough'  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 8, 2017 6:13 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Feb 8, 2017 6:13 PM UTC [John Oliver](http://time.com/4569328/john-oliver-2016-last-week-tonight-final-episode/) may be “slightly concerned” about being deported, but that isn’t stopping him from speaking out against [President Donald Trump’s](http://time.com/4662409/donald-trump-theresa-may-hands-joke/) controversial [immigration order](http://time.com/4662860/immigration-order-arguments-judges-what-to-know/). During a Tuesday night appearance on _The Late Show_, the British _Last Week Tonight_ host discussed the [travel ban](http://time.com/4660543/donald-trump-travel-immigration-ban-muslim-ninth-circuit/) with Stephen Colbert, sharing his objections to the the executive order’s now-halted restrictions. --- > “” --- Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/"},"headline":"Watch John Oliver Discuss Immigration With Stephen Colbert: 'Having a Green Card Used to Be Enough'","datePublished":"2017-02-08T18:13:23.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:40:56.367Z","description":"\"Things are not what they’re supposed to be\"","url":"https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","stephen colbert","TV","Donald Trump","the late show","Late Night Television","John Oliver","the late show with stephen colbert"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4663987/john-oliver-stephen-colbert-immigration-donald-trump/","name":"Watch John Oliver Discuss Immigration With Stephen Colbert: 'Having a Green Card Used to Be Enough'"}}]}] ```