Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries

[oaklandhater]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...=.66b5a4a0824a

Trump attacks protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries

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 Wednesday.

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 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

Outlining a potential bipartisan deal, the lawmakers discussed restoring protections for countries that have been removed from the temporary protected status program while adding $1.5 billion for a border wall and making changes to the visa lottery system.

The administration announced this week that it was removing the protection for citizens of El Salvador.

Trump had seemed amenable to a deal earlier in the day during phone calls, aides said, but shifted his position in the meeting and did not seem interested.


Graham and Durbin thought they would be meeting with Trump alone and were surprised to find immigration hard-liners such as Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) at the meeting. The meeting was impromptu and came after phone calls Thursday morning, Capitol Hill aides said.

[White House: No deal yet on immigration]

After the meeting, Marc Short, Trump’s legislative aide, said the White House was nowhere near a bipartisan deal on immigration.

“We still think we can get there,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said at the daily White House news briefing.

[Iowanian]

He's right.

Why bring in floods of people from uncivilized parts of the world? they're not going to assimilate or produce any value to our country.

El Salvador isn't in Africa and it's biggest export to the US is, MS13 for example.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Donger

Looks like there are still thousands per year, actually.

They would vote (D). Look at their government. Nearly the exact opposite of (R).

[eDave]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

No not **** them. Help them in their own country so they can make their own countries better.

We are the BEST at nation building.

MONGA!

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by CoMoChief

Well thats exactly what they are.

And they have nobody to blame but themselves.

Let their shitty problems stay in their own shithole countries.

Or make their own countries better. They're only going to vote for the same policies that keep their countries shitty—which is why the left defends them. They want the same thing.

[BucEyedPea]

Originally Posted by eDave

We are the BEST at nation building.

Not these days. We bomb their infrastructure to smirthereens and then they want to come here.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by SuperChief

Whoa. Triggered.

I'll check my PMs for your mailing address so I can break in as an "unexpected guest" sweetie.

And if you don't let me break in you're a bigot!

[Pogue]

Originally Posted by SuperChief

Yeah, **** them! Not our problem, right guyz?

That’s what Democrats are saying about Chicago when black kids are being mowed down by criminals there.

[Taco John]

Trump is clearly angling to get his approval rating higher by talking like regular people talk. Some are questioning whether he really said it or not. I have to believe he did. It's very strategic to insert at this point in the immigration debate. It's certainly crude, but this is how Americans talk, and we all know it. The more the debate goes on, the more that phrase rings home.

[Jim Hammer]

Originally Posted by IowaHawkeyeChief

They have little to no education in some of these countries. The last think we need is more low skilled labor to come into this country with living wages being low and income disparity a concern for those on the left. I think they would agree we should go to a merit based system regardless of the country. However, that may be better for America, but not better for their future voting base.

Actually, low education voters tend to vote for Republicans.

[manchambo]

A very nice man drives me to the airport when I go on long business trips. He is a small business owner who runs a limousine service with a few employees. He is married with two small children, is a Broncos fan, and works as hard as anyone I know.

He is an immigrant from Sudan. I cannot imagine have such a hateful worldview as to dismiss this person as an immigrant from a "shithole."

[Otter]

Originally Posted by Jim Hammer

Actually, low education voters tend to vote for Republicans.

Any actual data to back this up or is this another libtard fairy tale?

[Jim Hammer]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

Or make their own countries better. They're only going to vote for the same policies that keep their countries shitty—which is why the left defends them. They want the same thing.

Like they get to vote there.

[SuperChief]

Originally Posted by Otter

I'll check my PMs for your mailing address so I can break in as an "unexpected guest" sweetie.

And if you don't let me break in you're a bigot!

Are you okay? Do you wanna talk about the specifics of your argument, here? I'm here for ya dude.

[Otter]

Originally Posted by manchambo

A very nice man drives me to the airport when I go on long business trips. He is a small business owner who runs a limousine service with a few employees. He is married with two small children, is a Broncos fan, and works as hard as anyone I know.

He is an immigrant from Sudan. I cannot imagine have such a hateful worldview as to dismiss this person as an immigrant from a "shithole."

And once you start recognizing the difference between 'immigrant' and 'illegal immigrant' you'll be taken seriously.

[eDave]

Originally Posted by Otter

Any actual data to back this up or is this another libtard fairy tale?

It's a joke. Gosh.