Is PH a ‘shithole’ country?

of Americans.

Fil-Am families, at the very least, have this particular vow not to be the Dylan Roofs of the US.

- dent Trump’s contention that immigrants to the US should come from countries such as “shithole” countries such as Haiti and the African nations time we confront this question: Do we belong to Mr. Trump’s list of “shithole“countries?

With our brown skin, I think we are in that list. Deep, deep inside Mr. Trump, countries with non-white people are generally “shithole“countries. According to the archives of the

appeared in the pages of the NYT in the 1970s, when the US Department of Justice sued Mr. Trump for racial discrimination. White applicants to the housing projects of the Trump family got priority on the leases while people of color were discriminated against.

In 1927, Donald‘s father, Fred Trump, was one of the seven men march in New York City.

In 2011, Mr. Trump sent investigators to Hawaii to check into Obama, part of the effort to push the wild theory that the president was not born in the US but else - vative/Republican politics.

Of course, Mr. Trump’s bigotry and racism will not dent, by a bit, the immigration dream of many Filipinos, even those with very slim paths to legal migration. Even with an unapologetic racist as president, the dream lives on and the trek to US shores will always be a part of Filipino lore and existence. The “shithole“tag will never bother our own dreamers.