White House says Trump's use of 'animals' to describe MS-13 wasn't strong enough

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Source: Yahoo News

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday sharply defended President Trump’s characterization of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes as “animals.”

“The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who entered the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws,” Sanders told reporters at a White House press briefing. “This one of the most vicious and deadly gangs that operate by the motto of rape, control and kill.”

During a roundtable discussion about California’s sanctuary cities laws at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Trump used the term “animals” after a Fresno County sheriff complained that legal restrictions placed on ICE databases make it difficult to track members of the MS-13 gang.

“We have people coming into the country, who are trying to come in, and 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.”

The comment sparked controversy as some critics and media reports suggested Trump was using the term to broadly describe all immigrants.


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Sarah Huckleberry doubles down on the racism and xenophobia.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Oh now they are claiming that they were talking about MS-13...Oh, okay...

what about the other gangs and so forth already in this country who probably are truly animals too? Or, are you just hyping one issue over and over again, to keep your troll base interested? Hey! Look at the shiny ball! Hey! Hey you! Look!

Hypocrites...overwhelming number of immigrants are good, decent folks wanting a good life too.

[mahannah]

2. Trump is rarely "clear".

[Hulk]

3. Referring to the con artist lurking in the White House as a worthless pile of shit...

...isn’t strong enough either. Such a sad, tragic blemish on this nation’s already checkered history of shameful tragedies.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Authoritarians always need a hook to hang hate on. A tag. So "MS-13" now, "crips" two decades ago.nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Good point and I like your line...

A few more hate tags: Liberal, government, Democrat, Islamic, terror or terrorist, welfare or entitlement. Books could be written just on their system of emotional triggers. Next, they'll want to issue each citizen mandatory badges to wear, like Nazis did with Jews.

Bernado, from what I've read, MS-13 is a problem and it's being thoroughly tracked by the FBI but nowhere near the scope that tRump is making it out to be. And, it's a relatively minor issue compared to the vast number of white hate groups.

[musette_sf]

5. Hey Sarah, what do you call someone

who tortures animals? YOU call him "my big brother David". Animal torturers are the lowest of the low.

https://jezebel.com/that-time-mike-huckabees-loser-son-allegedly-tortured-a-1702327150

[Haggis for Breakfast]

10. Something nearly every serial murderer has in their background

[Cold War Spook]

6. Bull

MS-13 is not in the sentences where he calls illegals animals.

[BlueStater]

8. I'd describe Donald Trump as a piece of shit.

But that would be a total insult to fecal matter, of which, unlike Trump, actually has a productive use in society.

[Maeve]

9. So we're still going to dehumanize people only more so

And if you're not clear on just who we're dehumanizing..."some of them I suppose are good people"
It's not like this is his first time labeling people...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/17/trumps-long-history-of-referring-to-nonwhite-criminals-as-animals/?utm_term=.3ae7fad4d8b7

[Nitram]

11. The Trump WH would hire MS-13 in a heartbeat if they offered to "help" with the

immigration issue.