Trump ramps up rhetoric on undocumented immigrants: 'These aren't people. These are animals.'
Source: USA Today
WASHINGTON — President Trump used extraordinarily harsh rhetoric to renew his call for stronger immigration laws Wednesday, calling undocumented immigrants "animals" and venting frustration at Mexican officials who he said "do nothing" to help the United States.
“We have people coming into the country or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are," Trump said.
"These aren't people. These are animals."
Trump's comments came in a freewheeling, hour-long White House meeting with local California leaders opposed to so-called "sanctuary city" policies. "California's law provides safe harbor to some of the most vicious and violent offenders on Earth, like MS-13 gang members putting innocent men, women, and children at the mercy of these sadistic criminals," he said.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/16/trump-immigrants-animals-mexico-democrats-sanctuary-cities/617252002/
I am reminded of a Jane's Addiction album title...
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Horrific.
We have crossed into the fucking Twilight Zone.
Some responses from Twitter:
Murderers, rapists, and animals. This is how the President views undocumented immigrants. These degrading words are also how despots around the world dehumanize those they persecute.
The only protection? A vigilant citizenry and the rule of law.
Trump: “These aren’t people. These are animals.”
No one would condemn these words more than Jesus Christ.
Christians who don’t condemn these words don’t understand their own religion.
This is staggering. It’s beyond contemptible. No other president in our history ever sank this low.
IF you are a decent person and were in a meeting where @realDonaldTrump called immigrants “animals,” you will denounce him NOW. Otherwise, what makes you any different?
Let’s just say it: this is the way Nazi Germans talked about targeted minorities.
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Trump, his minders, and most of the Republican leadership want to create maximum hate, division, confusion, racism and xenophobia as possible, and in a fact-free environment.
Professional studies have shown that on the average, immigrants have a much lower crime rate than their counterparts in American society in general.
It's no wonder my head spins every day from all this bullshit.....
Including Trump - and his family.
Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #38)
And that those who arrived more recently should be no less welcome than those who arrived via the last generation or the one before that. And it seems like the latest wave of immigrants becomes the least welcome, it was once the Irish or the Chinese or whichever wave of those seeking a better life was the last to arrive. Chances are that whichever group anyone's ancestors belonged to were at one time unwelcome - and that includes Trump's. How we are callous enough to forget that is totally beyond me, but it now seems we have forgotten the atrocities of WWII, as well.
Response to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #42)
My Dad's paternal grandparents both arrived from Ireland - which I learned were not particularly welcome at the time. And my maternal grandparents both came from Poland, "on the last boat," as my mother described it. My grandfather was 18, they made him a citizen and sent him to France to fight for this country. And, like him, our current armed forces have other young men from other countries - like Army Captain Humayun Khan who fought and died in Iraq. But some of those currently serving are actually being deported. What has changed? That this is happening now seems to me to be a national disgrace.
Why do we exaggerate what the Big Con says....he says enough lies every day without playing into fake news...
Specifically commenting on the fact he was talking about gang members....and I agreee, they are animals....
