One of the six senators who crafted the bipartisan immigration deal, Democrat Michael Bennet of Colorado, said Saturday that the proposal “has everything the president asked for on the border”. (In his statement on the Access Hollywood tape, Trump also said, “Bill Clinton has said far worse to me on the golf course.”) Suddenly, we’re all just supposed to accept that this is how “real men” talk.
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Haitian-American Democratic Club of Lee County founder Beatrice Jacquet, said if the President truly said those comments, she is disgusted.
Trump had been quoted as saying during a meeting at the White House earlier in the week, “Why do we want all these people from Africa here?”
Trump denied the racist remarks, tweeting on Friday that the language he used “was tough, but this was not the language used”, as he called for a “merit-based system of immigration and people who take our country to the next level”.
The body has since issued a statement calling for the United States leader to apologise for the remarks.
Trump suggested the USA should instead focus its immigrant entry policy on countries such as Norway.
All of those countries, at one time or another, would been called you-know-what countries.
Donald Trump, on Friday, however, denied making those comments.
“I strongly condemn the racist comments made by Donald Trump”, he said.
Developing countries do have difficulties, but they are not “s**thole countries”, said ANC Deputy General Secretary Jessie Duarte, calling Trump’s remarks “unfortunate”.
Trump then “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist”, Durbin said, adding that “shithole” was “the exact word used by the president, not just once but repeatedly”.
Republican Sens. Tom Cotton and David Perdue, who’ve been close allies to the president on the issue of immigration, were in a White House meeting with him Thursday when Trump, according to sources, expressed frustration with people coming to the USA from “sh-hole countries”. Rand Paul said Sunday, while commenting that he knows personally that Trump is not biased against Haiti.
“The only thing that would attract me to emigrate to the U.S. is your vibrant multicultural society”.
We have heard from conservatives who defend Mr. Trump and defend this remark. and saying that, well, these countries are shitholes, and that’s why people are trying to get out of them.
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What exactly did Trump say? Part of what makes America so special is that we welcome the best and brightest in the world, regardless of their country of origin’. “His most recent comment categorizing some nations as “s– hole” countries is another shameful embarrassment in a long litany of disgraceful moments as President, which includes his categorizing of some neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klansmen at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia as ‘very fine people”. I don’t know which context they were made.
