Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘$h!thole’ countries

Washington Post ^ | Jan 11, 2018 | Josh Dawsey

[11th_VA]

President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

A White House spokesman declined to offer an immediate comment on Trump’s remarks.

[katana]

I’ve visited a lot of those countries and can vouch for the fact that “s#!+hole” is by the far the most accurate term to use. Unless the “s#!+holian” applying for a visa has some useful talent or skill Americans cannot provide (knowing how to squat $#!+ and wipe one’s @$$ without the use of paper does not qualify) there is no legitimate reason to let him or her in.

[9YearLurker]

Yes, I do want my chief executive to be bluntly honest, thank you!

(I just wish Trump would listen to his Inner Trump on DACA, too!)

[snarkytart]

BINGO

Nobody wants to talk about the reason places like Mexico is a a shithole is because of it’s people.

It’s been around longer than the US and still can’t get it together.
The immigrants, legal and other wise, from a hundred years ago were from areas that were not shitholes just didn’t offer them the opportunity America did and lets face another reality, those immigrants came from countries with over all higher IQ and lower crime than those who are flooding our borders illegally and through back door policies.

[Mollypitcher1]

Why is it a “bit much?” The president has his opinion and I happen to agree with him. What have these countries contributed to humanity? Zilch! What have they cost us? Beaucoup!

[Liz]

THE ATLANTIC MAGAZINE-Allen McDuffee---Dec 31, 2014
Who Really Crosses the U.S.-Mexico Border?

The total number of unauthorized immigrants apprehended is on the rise, but they're no longer coming from America's nearest neighbor.

For the first time (as of 2014) in more than 60 years, more non-Mexicans than Mexicans were apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol at checkpoints in 2014, according to an analysis by the Pew Research Center.

Approximately 257,000 non-Mexicans were apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol in 2014, compared to about 229,000 Mexicans, according to the recently released data. The total number of unauthorized immigrant apprehensions is up 16 percent from the prior year.

At first glance, it may seem unsurprising that non-Mexican apprehensions would outnumber Mexican apprehensions since the data includes all the border points and not just the U.S.-Mexico border. However, non-Mexican apprehensions stayed below 250,000 until this year, while throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s, Mexican apprehensions mostly stayed above 1 million each year, peaking in 2000 at 1.6 million.

Despite the decrease, however, Pew notes that the estimated 5.9 million undocumented immigrants from Mexico still remain the majority of undocumented immigrants in the United States at 52 percent, with a median duration of stay for adults at 13 years.

[JohnG45]

... according to two people briefed on the meeting.

This is the state of journalism at the Washington Post: "two people briefed on the meeting." Not two people who actually were at the meeting but possibly a friend of a friend whose father knows someone whose daughter dates a person whose uncle overheard two people talking on an elevator.

[Fedora]

". . .Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday."

Typical Washington Post source. Do "these people" have an audio recording?

[ThankYouFreeRepublic]

” Trump should have been more polite and used the words “turd world countries” instead.”

ha, ha, ha

[central_va]

The best most politically correct thing is to stop ALL immigration. No discrimination there.

[beergarden]

Dont forget this idiot was raised by probably the only tranny nanny in Indonesia I kid you not.

[ThankYouFreeRepublic]

“Since the MSM and Democraps talk as though it is some horrible punishment to be returned to those countries, it is confirmed every day that liberals truly do view those as s###hole countries. But I doubt Trump said this in such a meeting. More Leftard disinformation.”

You make too much sense, the left cannot compute. They will also turn around and make another worthless argument to bring them here and destroy our country and culture.

[Liz]

DHS asks State Department to suspend visas for countries who won't accept US-deported citizens
Washington Examiner ^ | Aug 23, 2017 | Anna Giaritelli / Posted by 11th_VA

The Trump administration is considering suspending the visas of some citizens in countries who have "refused to accept or unreasonably delayed the return of its nationals," according to multiple reports Wednesday evening.

Cambodia, Eritrea, Guinea, and Sierra Leone have refused to take back people in the U.S. who are in the country illegally and been cleared by immigration courts for removal, according to the Washington Times.DHS requested in a letter to the State Department that it suspend visas to some citizens from the four countries, though it's not known who would be affected.

"When we receive such notification, the Department of State works to implement a visa suspension as expeditiously as possible in the manner the secretary determines most appropriate under the circumstances to achieve the desired goal," a State official told Fox News. While a presidential candidate, Trump promised to take more action to get countries to take back people the U.S. sought to deport. Eight of the 20 countries that had fought the change are now working with the U.S. government to take back their citizens.

"The secretary [of State] is having conversations with those countries. We want to bring those countries into compliance. We want those countries to be able to take back their citizens," the State official said. "We are having different levels of conversations with those countries and imposing different things upon them based on what we think will work best with those countries." (Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...

[DoodleBob]

Ladies and gentlemen, I’ll be brief.

The issue here is not whether Trump used such language or slandered certain countries.

He did.

[Pelham]

Good.

[rfp1234]

Probably fake news...saw a similar story last week where POTUS supposedly trashed Haitians as “all having AIDS”, and mocked Nigerians as “hut owners”.

[Angels27]

It’s a totally relevant question.

[hirn_man]

American blacks hate African immigrants because most African immigrants think this is a wonderful country and are happy to be here instead of the shithole they came from.

African immigrants for the most part don’t buy into the whole America is so unfair to me mindset.

[Lucky2]

They are shithole countries, so where’s the issue here?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

IIRC...Obammy called Kanye West an “a$$hole”.

[basalt]

over at DU..almost every response is “hey Trump, take a look out your window, youre living in the real shithole”.....they just love hating this country...bizarre.