President Donald Trump on Monday downplayed the idea of allowing Bahamians fleeing the destruction ofinto the United States on humanitarian grounds, hours after his acting Customs and Border Protection chief said it was worth considering.
"I don't want to allow people that weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers."Earlier Monday, acting Customs and Border Protection chief Mark Morgan said during a press briefing that while there has not been any formal grant of temporary protected status, or TPS, for Bahamians affected by Dorian, it was not something he had ruled out.
The conflicting stances came a day after more than 100 Bahamians were forced off a ferry boat before it could reach Florida, according to two U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials.
The white mouse advisors are of course backing the big cheese.
all this should have been thought about a week ago...
NBC is not news!
Because Spanky doesn't know what humanitarian means. Never has never will!
Screen them
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They are rapists, drug dealers coming from the Bahamas, says Trump
There is nothing good about this man he is evil and cruel to his core
He's a monster. And a traitor
When the going gets tough, you don’t turn your back on your homeland and run, if the people are of that mentality why would we want them there.
If we can’t have empathy for our own US citizens (die from lack of health insurance ; shot by gun nuts) why would we feel any charity towards Bahamians?
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Because that’s what Jesus would do. MAGAcult GOPTraitors
So?
Boy, someone went nuts with the hair products today. Someone should have shown him that crispy thing on the side of his head. Bad makeup today, bad hair....his age is really showing through the makeup now.
To those that say why not South America. Miami is about 181 miles from the Bahamas, and Curacao, Venezuela is around 1200 miles. Yeah, that makes a lot of fucking sense to travel by boat 1200 miles compared to 181 miles. Dumbasses.
Wow, NBC's reach must've really decreased recently... By now I expected to hear all of the foul name calling I usually get when I post something against the Dem party line
About as disgusting as what these other presidents have done to blacks!!
.realDonaldtRUmp EVERY accusation is an admission, with this turd! The only 'very bad people' he knows work for him and his corruption. Where are your facts, POSOTUS? Who are these very bad people, MobDon? NeverMyPresident*
Good for him! We just finally got rid of the last ones. Sorry if I seem callous, but when I lived on a mtn, I knew what I was in for, same w/ them on their island. Certain areas have disadvantages you have to roll with or leave
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The silence of Republicans on Trump's ungodly display of racism is well understood; the silence of the Republican Jewish Coalition is noteworthy.
This racist thing is so evil and spineless PresidentPAB
Trump's sins reach heaven; he turned away hurricane victims, using racist taunts. We must vote to remove him from office.
This is the man all Republicans in office bow to as their supreme leader.
Well that's just heartwarming isn't it? Neighbour helping neighbour. 🙄
Not one ounce of empathy or understanding.
He said it was raining in Fayetville. 😳
When will fellow evangelicals jump off the Trump train, This man is not of God.
He’s truly the Devil in disguise 😡
Hitler would be so jealous!
“WHaT abOUt SoUTH AmERICan COuntRIes - WHy DoN’T tHEY tAKe tHEm?” People literally consider West Palm as an airport when traveling to Miami. That is the equivalent distance.
Oh, he means the 'brown ones', right?
Mainly because they don't need to. Plenty of resources on the other islands
Such a caring, Christian man.
This is a crime against humanity
He is a monster.
realDonaldTrump POTUS only a weak feeble man would use a humanitarian disaster to make him feel powerful. Sad!
Grrrr
There’s a lot of countries in South America too. Just saying.
trump is a racist he will not allow any humanitarian help.
He could let them come to his golf resorts then bill the taxpayers for the cost
Ah, well.. just let the Bozo throw in some towels... everybody happy again, right?
We could happily do that if we weren’t already being taken advantage of one more reason to stop ILLEGAL immigration and force people to follow our laws.
NBC advocates for mass migration to the USA for people in the Bahamas. What if relief supplies are sent to the stricken areas and we not open our borders.
I guess my question is how can anyone expect these people to have the proper documentation after a storm that LEVELLED their whole island? The fact that people have lost everything except the clothes on their backs, realDonaldTrump thinks they should have all proper docs. SMH
Hey Trump, let them in, you leave.
What is he using to check skin shade?
He does stand there like a horseless minotaur.
There is no bottom to this administration. Every single day is a new low.
Downplay walk-back and resend this is all this man knows, he doesn’t know how to run anything let alone a country
So now we don't grant TPS to a ravaged Island just off the coast of Florida? I wonder why?
It's really cause he's a racist and he would rather let them suffer
Can’t we come up with a solution for these poor people by discussing it with all our allies? They have absolutely lost everything!
He really is mentally ill
Trump has systematically eliminated humanitarian grounds as a reason for assisting anybody, foreign or domestic. Now people are only helped for financial reasons and only if the already have so much money they don't really need any help at all.
Look, let's just solve the problems of the world once and for all. Everyone should move to the USA and that will fix everything. Really...people who constantly support this nonsense of ceaseless humanitarian migration are fkn stupid. Countries need to overcome their own issues.
Why don't those displaced by Dorian go to the country who is in charge of their government-Britain?
Perhaps the evangelicals should send their kids to Bahamas on a “mission” trip? We can’t even imagine what these HUMAN BEINGS have been though and what they face. Compassion sees no color. This is not political. I hope he rots in hell.
just like porto rico we dont want they're illegal immigrints. why do people live in these country's that get by hurracanes all the time! then they want to send all they're illegals to the USA!
Please print what he said and not your flawed interpretation of it.
So now that it is in our faces, what kind of stupid rule makes people carry around their police record to travel? What is up with that?
Can’t we could come up with a solution for these poor people by discussing it with all our allies? They have absolutely lost everything!
thank goodness ! we could give humanitarian aid and help rebuilt but not let them in it will be the norm for future calamities from other countries & if not done ppl will say why did we do it for the bahamians not for others !
What the hell, build some more cages - problem solved!😡
realDonaldTrump This NUT JOB DEALS WITH THE TALIBAN but is worried about ppl DEVASTED IN THE BAHAMAS COMING HERE! WHO IS THIS NUT!
There is plenty of room on the other Bahama islands.
I wonder if he would allow those hit by Dorian, and live in Canada, to come here? 🧐
Translation: 'I don't want brown people here.'
The word “humanitarian” means nothing to Trump. Too many letters.
Could they not help with hurricane recovery in Alabama?
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Trump's a racist who throws crumbs of justice to those he oppresses, then expects to be adored for it. Ya know, like you'd expect a fish to thank you for feeding it a worm, even though it was on the end of your hook. Don't forget, those who look for tx, usually don't deserve it.
Is it “downplays” or “dismisses”? They have different meanings.
The very bad people he is talking about is himself. Cannot even pretend to show compassion. presidentPAB
NO - the quote says that undocumented NON-Bahamians that should not be allowed entry.
This applies to anyone trying to enter the U.S.
very bad person is you. Trump
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If they came from Norway, they would be welcomed with a red carpet.
Im surprised he didn't offer to send them to Puerto Rico. That's where the rest of the hurricane victims he deplores, reside.
What the fuck is wrong with tRump?
Trump is a heartless soul, who has no empathy at all.
You could just say 'He has no empathy and leaves them to die.'
Straight 👆 F....
Gee I thought he would be totally into helping out... Lol
He only accept people who are white. Simple as this.
Of course. He thinks some are bad people.
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I guess he doesn’t have any Hotel there. So he doesn’t care.
The next time the United States has a disaster like that in the Bahamas, the world should sink to the US level and withhold any aid to help. It works both ways.
He wouldn't be saying that if the people from the Bahamas were white. What he says about the Bahamians would get you fired in any private company if you say what he says. His statement on them is based on prejudice, not facts.
Idiot
That's probably because they should stay and rebuild their homes & communities on the islands. Why do you people invent the notion that abandoning your home instead of rebuilding is something that must be?
As the Bahamas are part of the UK, shouldn’t the UK and it’s other territories take them in? Would Carolinians or Floridians seek humanitarian refuge from the UK or Australia?
It’s not the Bahamians, the only bad person is you. Those people have nowhere to live. Little to eat. Everything they own is gone. You have absolutely no compassion whatsoever. Every bit of criticism you receive is well deserved.
Desperate people with absolutely nothing, no shelter, food, medicine, water, money, utilities and Trump slams the door to help in there face. What a cruel cold man. Makes me ashamed to be an American.
Build a Wall!
I know that may terrorists have been vacationing in the Bahamas, waiting for a hurricane, on the off chance we would waive our rules so they could come and attack us. You see, the president knows this, and he's protecting us! This is sarcasm by the way.
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Selfish unchristian and racist realDonaldTrump
Yes. He hates all shades of brown people.
Will somebody pack him up n send 2 that devastated place n leave him there for a week. Then we'll c what he has to say.
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all of the bad people already live at the White House
He could do like the Clintons. Form a foundation, solicit millions, steal said money, repeat.
Still thousands of Puerto Ricans in the US soaking up benefits instead of rebuilding their island.
Too much Black n Brown for the GOOD OLD GREAT AMERICA
So... This was BS?
They’re the wrong color. He lets Russians have babies at his resorts but no brown people get to evacuate a disaster area.
Nazi sympathiser not very sympathetic
If they just weren't brown, maybe he could let them in.
Hey 45... send paper towels...
Cruel old man. Now he's bashing wretched, poor, homeless hurricane victims. I'm sure if they were Norwegians....
Make America great again!
Deplorable.
realDonaldTrump your a sick dude.
and me...
Have you no honor realDonaldTrump I hate what you are doing to the soul of our country. As a lifelong Republican, I’m embarrassed of what this has become. You have no dignity. No class. No tact. No empathy. No Soul. No heart. No clue.
Piece of crap has no empathy for anyone. Truly an inwardly awful waste of precious air
Trump is a Nazi.
Monster.
Why aren’t they going to Britain?
That would require being a compassionate human being something 45 is incapable of.
Because it was never about “legal” or “doing it the right way.” It was always about keeping Those People out.
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