Courtesy Tribune News Service
Pierre Labossiere was aghast when, during immigration discussions in the Oval Office Thursday, President Donald Trump questioned why the US should admit immigrants from Haiti and Africa, calling them "shithole countries".
According to those briefed on the conversation, the president used the phrase * a href="http://abc7chicago.com/politics/trump-why-allow-immigrants-from-s***hole-countries/2930875/" *"s***hole countries" while questioning why the USA would accept more immigrants from Haiti and nations in Africa, rather than places like Norway.
In his own tweet Friday, Trump had appeared to deny using the term "shithole", as he was reported to have done during a private White House meeting Thursday. Sen.
"The language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used".
He also took issue with Trumps reported suggestion that the United States should welcome immigrants from places like Norway, whose population is overwhelmingly white, instead of from African countries and Haiti.
As for whether or not it's prudent to use the label, Klein said, "Anchors should report facts". Never said 'take them out.' Made up by Dems.
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Sen. Dick Durbin, the lone Democrat in the meeting, confirmed the comments Friday morning, calling the words "hate filled, vile and racist". "And this influencer said what needs to happen, and it's kind of-she made me laugh with it, but it's real".
Trump's comments were immediately denounced as racist and xenophobic at home and overseas, by the United Nations human rights office and politicians from the countries named. "But deservedly so. This is what happens if presidents say things that cross a line and go too far". I've not read one of them that's inaccurate.
Trump's denial came among a series of other tweets in which he defended his immigration stance.
"I felt disgust", said Labossiere, a Haitian immigrant and co-founder of the Bay Area's Haiti Action Committee. Trump allegedly said after being presented with a proposal to restore protections for immigrants from the countries in question. "Wall was not properly funded, Chain & Lottery were made worse and US would be forced to take large numbers of people from high crime. countries which are doing badly". I want to stop the massive inflow of drugs.
Orange County Commissioner Victoria Siplin, who is of Haitian ancestry, said Friday that Trump is misinformed about the island nation, the first independent country founded by freed slaves.
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