Trump floats cutting foreign aid when criminal illegal immigrants enter US
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 05/23/18 03:07 PM EDT
President Trump on Wednesday suggested the United States could withhold foreign aid from countries that allow criminal illegal immigrants to come to the United States..
I have to say that many of these countries we give tremendous amounts of aid to tens of millions of dollars and were working on a plan to deduct a lot of the aid, Trump said at a roundtable about addressing immigration loopholes.
I happen to believe that its not so hard. You know, theyll let you think theyre trying to stop this theyre not trying to stop it, Trump continued. I think they encourage people from leaving. They dont want the people that were getting in that country.
So, were going to work out something where every time somebody comes in from a certain country, were going to deduct a rather large amount of money from what we give them in aid, if we give them aid at all, Trump said to a round of applause from the crowd.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/389049-trump-suggests-cutting-foreign-aid-to-countries-who-allow-criminal
nature-lover
(1,470 posts)mercuryblues
(14,537 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Freethinker65
(10,034 posts)It will however be fodder for the media/pundits. Gotta keep them busy chasing tweets and threats while the real damage is being done elsewhere.
nature-lover
(1,470 posts)Thinks he is such a genius that he can just wing it. Thus, these rambling, ridiculous statements that will be broadcast far and wide while the regulations that protect our country are burned.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)...in a toilet bowl.
haele
(12,673 posts)Oh, wait...it's "certain countries".
Certain "shithole" countries. Not places like Russia, or Ireland, or Saudi Arabia, or...
Haele
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)no country can keep track of and control all the "criminals". Stupid idea.
The sitting fascist should just say he is cutting off foreign to any country populated by brown people who talk funny or who aren't christian.
pecosbob
(7,542 posts)apnu
(8,758 posts)This bullshit has been a conservative and Republican talking point for decades.
Trump is like W, he's being fed lines, only he's creepier and more disgusting that W.
At least W could be funny once in a while to break up all the horrible illegal shit he was up to.
dembotoz
(16,825 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,352 posts)"Many of these countries we give tremendous amounts of aid to. Tens of millions of dollars. And we're working on a plan to deduct a lot of the aid because I happen to believe that it's not so hard," Trump said during the event in Bethpage, New York.
"So we're going to work out something where every time somebody comes in from that country, we're going to deduct a rather large amount of money from what we give them in aid -- if we give them aid at all, which we may not just give them aid at all," he added.
A White House spokesman could not immediately clarify the President's comments.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/23/politics/trump-ms-13-meeting/index.html
This is just him stirring up hatred of immigrants. It's the only way he can get his base to turn out in midterm elections.
ProfessorGAC
(65,138 posts)If they cut foreign aid, that will further encourage people to try to get out of their countries, meaning more of them will try to come to the US.
Of course, PINO and his idiot minions would never see something like that, even though it's appallingly obvious.