In an Oval Office meeting on January 11, 2018, then-President Donald Trump became frustrated with legislators when they proposed restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration plan.
“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from predominantly white Christian countries like Norway.
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Trump and his J.D. Vance mini-me doubled and tripled-down on their vilification of Haitian immigrants in the town of Springfield, Ohio at the September 17 presidential debate with Kamala Harris, in which Trump trumpeted a blatantly false and dangerous conspiracy theory: “They’re eating the dogs. They’re eating the cats. They’re eating the pets of the people that live there,” he said.
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