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Trump ripped Haitians, Nigerians – report
PRESIDENT TRUMP seethed as he read a report on immigration — telling staffers and cabinet members that all Haitians have AIDS and mocking Nigerians, according to an explosive report on Saturday.
Trump grumbled as he entered the Oval Office for the June meeting, dressing down his national security team and railing against the number of immigrants who had entered the country since he took office, The New York Times reported.
He said he looked like a fool as he failed to make good on his promise to curtail foreigners coming to America.
Trump fumed at his top security team, reading from a list provided by adviser Stephen Miller, and complaining that 15,000 immigrants arrived from Haiti. They “all have AIDS,” he said. He continued, complaining that 40,000 people had come from Nigeria.
They would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, the President griped, according to a pair of officials who spoke to The Times.
Trump exploded as Miller went head-to-head with Secretary of State Tillerson. John Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, cleared the room of underlings and tried to assert order, sources told the newspaper.
The White House adamantly denied that the President made the racist remarks, insisting Trump never used the words “AIDS” or “huts.”
Several participants in the meeting told The Times they did not recall Trump using those words.
Since the beginning of his term, Trump has pushed to curb the number of refugees and immigrants being accepted into the U.S. as he sought to fulfill campaign pledges.
He has recently railed against chain migration and the diversity visa lottery program — pointing to the deadly lower Manhattan truck attack carried out by Sayfullo Saipov, who came to the U.S. through the lottery program as an example of its dangers.
He has also cited Akayed Ullah, a Bangladeshi national who attempted to detonate a bomb in the subway near the Port Authority Bus Terminal, who came to the U.S. through chain migration after his aunt was selected through the lottery program.
The nationalist approach to immigration is a testament to Miller’s influence. The staffer has made restricting the flow of immigrants to the U.S. his priority since joining the Trump team during the campaign.
Miller drew heat in January for the botched rollout of the Trump administration’s initial travel ban that largely targeted Muslim immigrants.
On Friday, a U.S. appeals court said the travel ban targeting people from six Muslim-majority countries should not be applied to people with strong U.S. ties.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers several West Coast states, said its ruling would be put on hold pending a decision on the latest version of the travel ban from the Trump administration by the U.S. Supreme Court.