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Are doing badly. i want a merit-based system of immigration and people who will help take country to the next level. i want safety and security for our people. i want to stop the massive inflow of drugs. i want to fund our military. it goes on and on. the presidents vulgar comments about haitians and africans could potentially, based on my conversations with folks on capitol hill, make it very difficult for democrats to sit down at the table and try to get a deal done with him on immigration. wh...

Countries but president trump will always fight for the american people. like other nations that have merit-based immigration, president trump is fighting for permanent solutionings that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society, grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation. stef, worth noting that at the backdrop of all of this, eight years to the day since that earthquake which devastated haiti, a lot of officials there instead of just being focuse...

Press. ive not read one of them thats inaccurate. to no surprise, the president started tweeting this morning, denying that he used those words. it is not true. he said these hate-filled things. and he said them repeatedly. when the question was raised about haitians, for example, we have a group that have temporary protected status in the united states because they were the victims of crises and disasters and political upheaval. the largest groups el salvadorian. when i mentioned that fact to h...

Drug dealers. banning muslims. calling neo-nazis some fine people. supporting roy moore who said the time in history he liked the most was the slave days. and here we are with referring to haitians or africans or the place they come from. send them back to those places because theyre you know what. >> this is both the least surprising as well as the most outrageous maybe marker in his presidency. i think donald trump has become the typhoid mary of republican politics. he really needs to be isola...

I dont believe president trump has ever been to africa. i could be wrong. i dont believe hes ever been to haiti. how would he be able to weigh in on the state of those nations? >> well, let me just tell you what hes tweeting this morning, in terms of that denial. hes choosing his words very carefully. let me read you his tweet. lets do some analysis on the other side. this is what hes saying. never said anything derogatory about haitians other than haiti is obviously a very poor and troubled cou...

Crazy, you know, i think that most haitians are not surprised. both my parents are from haiti. when my parents came here, they did so, like most immigrant, looking for a better life. theyve done an extraordinary job in raising two daughters who contribute to american society. i think thats whats being lost here. is this idea that immigrants come to this country and they do not contribute to this country. let me just give you a little snapshot about what haiti is? in 1804, haiti became the first ...