Washington,
\nPresident Donald Trump has expressed frustration over efforts of some US lawmakers to protect immigrants from Haiti and African countries, asking why America should accept citizens from \u201cshithole\u201d countries, triggering protests.<\/p>\n
Trump met senators and congressmen and pushed for immigrants from certain Asian countries who help America economically. \u201cWhy are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?\u201d Trump was quoted by multiple media reports. The President was referring to African countries and Haiti, and then suggested the US should welcome immigrants from places like Norway, whose PM met Trump on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
His comments, which has been slammed by Democratic lawmakers, was first reported by The Washington Post.<\/p>\n
Trump also suggested he would be open to more immigrants from Asian countries because he felt they help the US economically, the report said.<\/p>\n
Notably, Trump has been calling for merit-based immigration, of which people from countries like India could be a major beneficiary.<\/p>\n
Trump said this during a bipartisan meeting of lawmakers in his Oval Office. \u201cCertain Washington politicians choose to fight for foreign countries, but President Trump will always fight for the American people,\u201d said Raj Shah, the Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary without directly referring to Trump\u2019s comments. Trump has been seeking to end temporary protection status of people from certain countries.<\/p>\n
Several Democratic lawmakers slammed Trump for his comments and described them as racist comment. \u201cPresident Trump\u2019s comments are racist and a disgrace. They do not reflect our nation\u2019s values. Immigrants from throughout the world of all races, nationalities, and religions have built this country and are contributing today to its improvement,\u201d said House Democratic Whip Steny H Hoyer.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese comments clearly reflect the President\u2019s true feelings on immigrants and make it extremely doubtful that he will work in an honest, decent way that reflects America\u2019s best values on legislation to protect DREAMers,\u201d Hoyer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs an American, I am ashamed of the President. His comments are disappointing, unbelievable, but not surprising. We always knew that President Trump doesn\u2019t like people from certain countries or people or certain colours,\u201d alleged Democratic Congressman Luis Gutierrez. \u201cLanguage like that shouldn\u2019t be heard in locker rooms and it shouldn\u2019t be heard in the White House,\u201d said Ilena Ros-Lehtinen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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