“President Trump said things that were hate-filled, vile and racist”, said Senator Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who attended the meeting and confirmed the president’s comments.
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On Friday, Trump tweeted that, “the language used by me at the DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used”. I am not a racist. That’s what we’re looking at with these particular situations and I fully predict that as more and more people begin to leave the Trump White House and more of those positions become vacant, you’re going to notice Donald Trump’s tweets and his statements are going to get crazier and crazier because there’s going to be nobody left to tell him to tone it down a bit.
You spend any time in neighborhoods across Colorado, what you find is immigrants here striving to make this country better and provide for their families and for the next generation.
A source familiar with the conversation, said Mr Trump, who has vowed to clamp down on illegal immigration, also questioned the need for Haitians in the US.
The White House has not denied that Trump said “s–hole” though Trump has already pushed back on some depictions of the meeting.
Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) spokesperson Clayson Monyela reportedly said the department wanted to give the U.S. an opportunity to explain the Trump’s statement. Instead, Trump blamed the media for distorting his meaning, arguing his description of “shithole” was not racist but rather a straightforward assessment of some nations’ depressed conditions.
Sen. Dick Durbin of IL, the only Democrat in the room, said Trump had indeed said what he was reported to have said. He said Trump used the most vulgar term “more than once”. “Neither is Haiti or any other country in distress”, she said. “The president’s emphasis on doing away with chain migration and the lottery is about people who are brought into the country with no regard to their skills, education or what their effect will be on the country”, Beck said.
“They weren’t made”, Mr Trump said, referring to two Republican senators who said on Sunday morning talk shows that the president never made, or that they did not hear, racist comments about Africa and Haiti. “But what we have to do is not let that define this moment”, said Republican Sen. “There is no other word one can use but ‘racist'”. “And I’m telling you it’s a gross misrepresentation”, Mr Perdue said on ABC’s This Week. “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
He responded “I don’t know” when asked whether there would a government shutdown, but warned it would hurt the military, which he said is unacceptable. “Probably should record future meetings – unfortunately, no trust!” the president added.
Donald Trump is officially the lowest level, has the worst language abilities out of any president in modern American history.
Saint Jean’s group advocates on behalf of immigrants from countries across Africa and the Caribbean, including many Haitians.
The meeting came after a federal judge this week issued an injunction halting Trump’s plans to end DACA, providing the immigrants with temporary relief.
The administration announced a year ago that it would end a temporary residency permit program that allowed almost 60,000 Haitians to live and work in the USA following a devastating 2010 quake.
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The White House also made clear it does not want to include as part of the deal the DREAM Act, which would expand the existing program, according to Sen.
