Trump - “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”

[Anonymous]

Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Neither will poor whites in rural America. You know why? Because they own no stocks.

Anyone with pensions has ownership of stocks so basically any union worker which is most of America

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Neither will poor whites in rural America. You know why? Because they own no stocks.

Anyone with pensions has ownership of stocks so basically any union worker which is most of America

And Rs usually dislike unions. Trump certainly dislikes them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Neither will poor whites in rural America. You know why? Because they own no stocks.

Anyone with pensions has ownership of stocks so basically any union worker which is most of America

Where do you get your information and statistics? From the Beavis and Butthead School of Poppycock? Based out of Trump University, for sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

Others do, including poor Bangladesh who took many refugees from Myanmar. It's kind of pathetic that a tiny poor Muslim country is willing to take refugees but not the big rich Christian country.

There are always refugees, whether political or from war torn countries.

After WWII and during the Cold War - refugees from Europe and USSR
During the Vietnam war - from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
During the Balkan war - most of them went to other European countries
During the many conflicts in the Middle East and Africa
Natural disasters in Haiti
Civil war in El Salvadaor

Many of the sh1thole countries Trump was referring to are land accessible to the US.

African/ME refugees do go to Europe. I'll try not to be snarky, but have you not seen the news reports in the past few years regarding the surge in refugees across Europe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Neither will poor whites in rural America. You know why? Because they own no stocks.

Anyone with pensions has ownership of stocks so basically any union worker which is most of America

Nope and nope.

http://money.cnn.com/retirement/guide/pensions_basics.moneymag/index7.htm

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

Well, as far as the US is concerned, the refugee crisis from Central America started during the Carter/Reagan administration. The US stuck their noses into their civil war, and helped create the refugee crisis.

https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/central-americans-and-asylum-policy-reagan-era

In 1990, after its earlier frustrations to address the Central American asylum seekers, Congress finally passed legislation allowing the president (Bush Sr) to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to certain groups in need of a temporary safe haven. The first TPS legislation contained one provision (never codified as part of the Immigration and Nationality Act) explicitly designating Salvadorans for TPS.

Through the early 1990s, Salvadoran and Guatemalans who had arrived in the 1980s were able to stay in the country under a series of discretionary measures and under the terms of the 1991 settlement in the American Baptist Churches litigation. It was not until the late 1990s that their status was finally settled in a legislative agreement with the supporters of the anti-Sandinista Nicaraguans. The passage of the 1997 Nicaraguan Adjustment and Central American Relief Act finally allowed Salvadorans and Guatemalans protected under the American Baptist Churches settlement to apply for permanent residence.

What spurred the activism of the Sanctuary Movement and Central American refugees and their lawyers was the manner in which the Reagan administration linked the fate of individual asylum seekers to its foreign policy interests. Today, the use of immigration enforcement as a "magic bullet" for national security concerns requires close examination by the U.S. public.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

I recommend you start reading some decent news sources so keep yourself informed of world events. New York Times has done some great articles about conflicts, droughts, and natural disasters that lead to mass migrations of people trying to escape tyranny, war, starvation, etc. Same for Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, PBSNewsHour, BBC. Check out foreign newspapers online to get broader international coverage.

If you find the writing to be above your reading level, BuzzFeed often has really well done lists that provide insight into foreign afffairs. No joke.

Check it out - you'll learn something!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain how there are so many "refugees" nowadays? It seems that everyone is a refugee but from what exactly? We give billions in aid to many of these countries yet they cant go to Europe or other land accessible countries? Why do we have to accept them hear why cant other countries step up too?

Try keeping up with world events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's a stone cold racist.

So was Obama.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FWIW, DHS Sec. did not deny Trump said what he is reported to have said.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders says he does not deny using such "strong language" and defends it "because he feels passionately about it."

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-shithole-comments-white-house-confirms-sarah-sanders-press-secretary-haiti-a8162146.html

So basically the White House has confirmed it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Nope, taking the gains and thanking Obama. This is just a continued trend from the 13,000 point gain in the Dow that happened under Obama as far as I'm concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So it's OK to call those countries "shitholes" because their leadership is corrupt?

Well then it seems we have a problem, because OUR leadership, with Donald Trump is corrupt.

Dow is at another all time high. I assume liberals will not take the gains - dirty money

Nope, taking the gains and thanking Obama. This is just a continued trend from the 13,000 point gain in the Dow that happened under Obama as far as I'm concerned.

https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/953338943323348992

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anyone with pensions has ownership of stocks so basically any union worker which is most of America

Almost all of the former pensions were closed out or converted for some to 401k's. Almost no one has pensions or stock ownership anymore.