Trump Alarms Lawmakers With Disparaging Words for Haiti and Africa
WASHINGTON
— President Trump on Thursday balked at an immigration deal that would
include protections for people from Haiti and African countries,
demanding to know at a White House meeting why he should accept
immigrants from “shithole countries” rather than people from places like
Norway, according to people with direct knowledge of the conversation.
Mr.
Trump’s remarks left members of Congress attending the meeting in the
Cabinet Room alarmed and mystified. They were there discussing an
emerging bipartisan deal to give legal status to immigrants illegally
brought to the United States as children, the people said, speaking on
condition of anonymity without authorization to discuss the explosive
proceedings of the private meeting.
When
Mr. Trump heard that Haitians were among those who would benefit, he
asked if they could be left out of the plan, according to the people
familiar with the conversation, asking, “Why do we want people from
Haiti here?”
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