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Radio host Laura Ingraham and Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist engaged in a heated exchange on immigration reform on Ingrahams show Tuesday.

At one point, Ingraham, a Fox News contributor, accused anti-tax advocate Norquist of whining over the discussion on the show. After Ingraham said allowing more immigrant workers to come into the U.S. would be obscene to the American experience, Norquist cut in.

Laura, do I get to talk, too? he asked.

Yes, you do. After you did your soliloquy on an issue that has no relevance to what we were talking about earlier, go ahead, the radio host replied, referring to an earlier discussion about the 2014 midterm elections.

OK, well the soliloquy was, when you guys called me, you said you wanted to talk about the role of the tea party in the elections

Oh my god, youre whining, youre whining. Go ahead, Ingraham said, interjecting.

Norquist appeared to take a veiled shot at Ingraham earlier in the segment, when he criticized anti-immigration advocates who overuse the term amnesty.

One of the reasons why the people for more restrictionist immigration policy dont make more progress when they do is they throw around amnesty in criticizing every single reform that were looking at, he said.

Ingraham, a fierce critic of immigration reform, has often used the phrase in her opposition to the legislation that passed the Senate. On Tuesday, she said that those in favor of reform want millions upon millions of new workers to come in to displace those already beleaguered American workers who are struggling in the economy.

For his part, Norquist said he was in favor of some elements of immigration reform, saying it would benefit the agriculture industry and would help grow the economy. He said he a supporter of the guest worker program implemented during the Eisenhower administration.

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Ingraham fights 'whining' Norquist