This will definitely be around for a long time, so I’m sorry if all I have is the “juicy quote”.
Trump is referring to specific groups of immigrants here, and not the entire population, but if he’s gonna say it about 30 asylum seekers, he’s gonna say it about all of them.
He attacked immigrants. Just not his immigrant family.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html
This is a really long article, and somehow I was able to get it despite being out of views. Here are the related bits.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.
Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
This is for all those people who argued that Trump isn’t “really racist.”
No. He’s very clearly a serious racist, and seriously believes the things he says.
Source for the article, and naturally Sarah Huckabee Panderer denies it.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
Here’s a Thinkprogress piece on it.
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The Times reports that the tone of the meeting eventually escalated, as then-Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly and White House domestic policy advisor Stephen Miller began blaming Secretary of State Rex Tillerson for the number of immigrants who had come to the country, “prompting the secretary of state to throw up his arms in frustration.”
The Times reported that Tillerson replied angrily that “if he was so bad at his job, maybe he should stop issuing visas altogether”.
Additional sources support the story.