Democrats Use Trump's 'Sh*thole' Comment To Blow Up Amnesty Talks - Breitbart
Description: 'We've been crystal clear: chain migration must end--Period,' says Trump ally
Keywords: Amnesty, DACA, DREAMer, Durbin, immigration, Perdue, Trump,Big Government, Economics, Immigration,amnesty
Date: 2018-01-11T14:09:46-08:00

# Democrats Use Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Comment To Blow Up Amnesty Talks

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

by Neil Munro 11 Jan 2018 0

11 Jan, 2018 11 Jan, 2018

## President Donald Trump shot down an amnesty plan offered by Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin and several GOP Senators, prompting amnesty-advocates to wreck the amnesty talks by leaking Trump’s Oval Office “sh*thole” description of undeveloped countries.

The report said:

> President Trump grew frustrated with lawmakers Thursday in the Oval Office when they floated restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries as part of a bipartisan immigration deal, according to two people briefed on the meeting.

> “Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said, according to these people, referring to African countries and Haiti. He then suggested that the United States should instead bring more people from countries like Norway, whose prime minister he met yesterday.

> The comments left lawmakers taken aback, according to people familiar with their reactions. Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) and Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) proposed cutting the visa lottery program by 50 percent and then prioritizing countries already in the system, a White House official said.

The amnesty-plus plan was developed by Dubin and several pro-amnesty GOP Senators, including Sen. Cory Gardner from Colorado. The plan would provide an unpopular fast-track amnesty to more than one million illegals, reserve future chain-migration and also provide a quasi-amnesty to the illegal-immigrant parents who brought their children — dubbed ‘dreamers’ by Democrats — to the United States.

The Washington Post‘s story is based on a leak, likely from Durbin’s team. That leak suggests that Durbin and his allies do not expect to make a deal that they can sell to their base. Without that deal, the Democrats are using Trump’s “sh*thole” comment to blame his supposed racism for their failure to persuade Trump to abandon his base by accepting a big amnesty.

The White House released a statement after the Washington Post article was published. The statement did not deny the comment about less-developed countries, but promised an immigration policy which helps Americans and legal immigrants:

> White House response to @jdawsey1 report on Trump's "shithole countries" comment RE El Salvador & African countries: pic.twitter.com/qzfdmgyh68

> — Jacqueline Alemany (@JaxAlemany) January 11, 2018

The amnesty advocates had hoped to persuade Trump via a many-on-one lobbying session, but White House officials quickly invited pro-American supporters to attend their pitch. The Trump supporters at the event included Georgia Sen. David Perdue, co-author of the pro-American RAISE Act. his aide tweeted:

> NEW: @sendavidperdue on #immigration meeting today at #WhiteHouse:

> "Today I went to the White House to stand firm with President Trump.

> We've been crystal clear: chain migration must end–Period.

> Any solution the Senate will consider must include ending chain migration."

> — Caroline Vanvick (@Cvanvick) January 11, 2018

The meeting also included Sen. Tom Cotton and Rep. Bob Goodlatte, who has drafted an immigration-and-small-amnesty bill that has already won Trump’s approval.

> Trump semi-endorses House immigration bill, which cuts chain migration, ends visa lottery, changes laws to end catch & release at the border, and provide non-citizenship work-permit to 670k DACA illegals. Business is unhappy. https://t.co/6J92UlDVGw

> — Neil Munro (@NeilMunroDC) January 11, 2018

Goodlatte’s bill has been applauded by House Speaker Paul Ryan, but Ryan has not yet announced if he plans to schedule a debate and vote.

Polls show that Trump’s American-first immigration policy is very popular. For example, a poll of likely 2018 voters shows two-to-one voter support for Trump’s pro-American immigration policies, and a lopsided four-to-one opposition against the cheap-labor, mass-immigration, economic policy pushed by bipartisan establishment-backed D.C. interest-groups.

Business groups and Democrats tout the misleading, industry-funded “Nation of Immigrants” polls because they which pressure Americans to say they welcome migrants, including the roughly 670,000 ‘DACA’ illegals and the roughly 3.25 million ‘dreamer’ illegals.

The alternative “priority or fairness” polls — plus the 2016 election — show that voters in the polling booth put a much higher priority on helping their families, neighbors, and fellow nationals get decent jobs in a high-tech, high-immigration, low-wage economy.

Four million Americans turn 18 each year and begin looking for good jobs in the free market.

But the federal government inflates the supply of new labor by annually accepting 1 million new legal immigrants, by providing work-permits to roughly 3 million resident foreigners, and by doing little to block the employment of roughly 8 million illegal immigrants.

The Washington-imposed economic policy of economic growth via mass-immigration floods the market with foreign labor, spikes profits and Wall Street values by cutting salaries for manual and skilled labor offered by blue-collar and white-collar employees. It also drives up real estate prices, widens wealth-gaps, reduces high-tech investment, increases state and local tax burdens, hurts kids’ schools and college education, pushes Americans away from high-tech careers, and sidelines at least 5 million marginalized Americans and their families, including many who are now struggling with opioid addictions.

The cheap-labor policy has also reduced investment and job creation in many interior states because the coastal cities have a surplus of imported labor. For example, almost 27 percent of zip codes in Missouri had fewer jobs or businesses in 2015 than in 2000, according to a new report by the Economic Innovation Group. In Kansas, almost 29 percent of zip codes had fewer jobs and businesses in 2015 compared to 2000, which was a two-decade period of massive cheap-labor immigration.

Because of the successful cheap-labor strategy, wages for men have remained flat since 1973, and a large percentage of the nation’s annual income has shifted to investors and away from employees.

Comment count on this article reflects comments made on Breitbart.com and Facebook. Visit Breitbart's Facebook Page.

BREITBART CONNECT

## MOST POPULAR

- President Trump Stomps on Durbin-Gardner ‘Amnesty-Plus’ Proposal 0 comments - 3 hours ago
- Twitter Engineer Admits to Banning Accounts that Express Interest in God, Guns, and America 0 comments - 6 hours ago
- Leaked Memo: DACA Amnesty Is ‘Critical Component of Democratic Party’s Future Electoral Success’0 comments - 9 hours ago
- Project Veritas Video Shows Former Twitter Employees Discussing ‘Shadow Banning’ Users 0 comments - 10 hours ago
- Stephen K. Bannon Steps Down from Breitbart News Network 0 comments - 2 days ago
- CNN’s Acosta: Trump ‘Seems to Harbor Racist Feelings’0 comments - 3 hours ago
- Ingraham Warns Trump on DACA: No ‘Big Beautiful Wall,’ No End to Chain Migration — ‘Expect a Political Revolt From the Base’0 comments - 19 hours ago
- Donald Trump: ‘We’ll See What Happens’ with Steve Bannon 0 comments - 3 hours ago
- Poll: Oprah Beats Trump 48-38 with Likely Voters in 2020 Election 0 comments - 1 day ago
- John McCain Stays Silent on Involvement in Hoax Trump Dossier After Fusion GPS Revelations 0 comments - 7 hours ago

Better Voices
Thor Holt
Georgia Carry Defends Second Amendment

## FROM THE HOMEPAGE

- Democrats Use Trump’s ‘Sh*thole’ Comment To Blow Up Amnesty Talks
  Comments
- Democrats Expand ‘Dreamer’ Amnesty Plan to Include Millions of Parents
  Comments
- Kris Kobach: No, We Don’t Have to Do a DACA or DREAM Amnesty
  Comments
- CNN’s Acosta: Trump ‘Seems to Harbor Racist Feelings’
  Comments
- Twitter Responds to Conservative Censorship Exposé by Attacking Project Veritas for Obtaining Footage
  Comments
- Project Veritas Video Confirms Years of Breitbart Tech Reporting on Twitter
  Comments
- Donald Trump: ‘We’ll See What Happens’ with Steve Bannon
  Comments
- Breitbart News Tonight: DACA Amnesty and Silicon Valley’s Leftist Digital Censorship
  Comments
- Acting ICE Director: 7-Eleven Operation ‘One of Many to Come’
  Comments
- Kassam Breaks with Farage over 2nd Referendum Call – ‘I Don’t Give a Monkey’s What Blair Wants’
  Comments
- SJW Book Burners Target ‘MASH’, ‘Taxi’, ‘WKRP,’ ‘Cheers,’ Pepé Le Pew
  Comments
- Jay Leno: Late-Night TV Turned Into ‘Depressing,’ ‘In Your Face’ Trump-Bashing
  Comments