Ah?
His defination of ‘Nice’ seems to be ‘Rich White People’ ones……
People of poorer people of color countries he wants to ‘Ban’….
And he’s upfront about his Racism….
One wonders how people of color and ALL other Americans, can support a guy who appears to want a American immigration policy based on RACE?
In January 2018, less than a year after he took office, Trump disparagedimmigrants from Haiti, Central America and Africa as coming from “shithole” countries. Why, he lamented in a closed-door meeting, couldn’t the country instead receive immigrants from countries like Norway?
A firestorm erupted, in part because it cemented the broad perception that Trump’s views of migration were inseparable from his views of race. The then-president attempted to backpedal, though, in this case, he was engaged in a credibility battle with more-credible elected officials. And then the controversy passed….
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Immigrants arriving today “are people coming in from prisons and jails. They’re coming in from just unbelievable places and countries, countries that are a disaster,” he said, according to the attendee. He then tried to explain his comments six years ago.
“When I said, you know, Why can’t we allow people to come in from nice countries, I’m trying to be nice,” Trump said, according to the Times. “Nice countries, you know like Denmark, Switzerland? Do we have any people coming in from Denmark? How about Switzerland? How about Norway?”
There are two possibilities for why Trump still maintains this position on immigration. The first is that he (who, you might recall, once served as president of the United States) is deeply ignorant about immigration. The second is that he believes racist rhetoric is a successful political strategy….
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Trump has made White grievance a central part of his politics from the outset and has recently pledged to focus part of his energy as president, should he win in November, on dismantling systems aimed at addressing historic racial inequality…
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Trump often talks about how immigration has increased so much since he left office. That’s true, in part because he left office at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, as the United States (and other countries) were struggling to rebuild their economies following (or during) widespread closures. This is how it works.
Immigration is an enormously complicated system, certainly, but the questions Trump asks are uncomplicated ones to answer….