Yes, he said this — REAL NEWS:
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”
And his family came from where, when conditions were what??? Granted it looks like his grandfather tried to go back to Germany and was deported, but…
Unless you where already here when us white folks landed, unless you were brought here to live in a penal colony, unless you were brought here in chains in the belly of a slave ship, odds are you chose to come here because it looked a lot better to take the risk and than stay where you were.
In the STrib:
In the Chicago Tribune:
President Donald Trump on Thursday questioned why an immigration deal should help immigrants from “shithole countries” in Africa, according to two people briefed on the meeting.
The slur came in an Oval Office meeting with lawmakers about a proposed bipartisan deal on immigration.
Trump made the remark after Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told Trump that under the proposal, a lottery for visas would be ended. Durbin said that in exchange, people from African countries that have benefited from that lottery would be given other access to visas.
The sources said Trump questioned why the U.S. would want to admit more people from “shithole countries.” They say Trump said the U.S. should allow more immigrants from places such as Norway.
The two people spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to publicly discuss the Oval Office meeting.
Trump included Haiti and El Salvador in his disparaging remarks, according to the Washington Post.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to the newspaper.
Also in the meeting was Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), the Post reported.
The White House did not deny that Trump used profanity in the meeting.
Spokesman Raj Shah said that while “certain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries,” Trump “will always fight for the American people.”
He said Trump wants to welcome immigrants who “contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation,” and will always reject “temporary, weak and dangerous stopgap measures” that he said “threaten the lives of hardworking Americans” and undercut other immigrants.
In Illinois, one leading Democrat said the remarks show the president is a racist.
State Sen. Kwame Raoul, D-Chicago, who born in Chicago to Haitian immigrants, said Trump’s comments show his “ignorance of the contributions Haitians have made to this country, as well as other immigrant nations.”
“Clearly he’s a racist. He has ignorance with regard to the history of his country and the contributions Haitians have made to this country,” Raoul said, adding Chicago was first settled by Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable, a Haitian.
Raoul, who is running for Illinois attorney general, said an apology from the president over his comments won’t be enough.
“There’s not enough apologies that Donald Trump can do. I think this guy is unfit to be president of the United States,” Raoul said. “There’s nothing he can say that can even be received as sincere.”
Raoul said his sister Ninaj runs an organization in Brooklyn called Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees, where she works with immigrants, both documented and undocumented.
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