Trump Uses Vulgar Language To Refer To African Countries Sources Say : NPR
Trump Uses Vulgar Language To Refer To African Countries  Sources Say
Updated at  7:10 p.m. ET
President Trump  on Thursday referred to African nations as "s***hole countries" during a meeting on immigration with a bipartisan group of senators  according to a Democratic aide and another person familiar with the conversation.
 Trump  made the comment during a discussion of U.S. visa and immigration policies inside the Oval Office.  Trump  was meeting with the senators to discuss a bipartisan plan to grant legal protections to the roughly 800 000 immigrants who are in the country illegally after being brought to the country as children. During the conversation  Trump  also questioned why the U.S would want to accept people from countries like Haiti and said the U.S. should want more people from countries like Norway  the aides said.
The senators had hoped to persuade  Trump  to support their plan  which pairs increased funding for border security with new legal status for immigrants who were previously protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program  also known as DACA. The White House rejected the plan and asked the senators to keep working on a new proposal.
The White House issued a statement rejecting "weak and dangerous stopgap measures" on immigration but did not deny  Trump 's remarks.
"The President will only accept an immigration deal that adequately addresses the visa lottery system and chain migration â two programs that hurt our economy and allow terrorists into our country " said deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah. "Like other nations that have merit-based immigration   President Trump  is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society  grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation."
Later that afternoon  after members of the six-person Senate group presented their agreement to  Trump   Sen. Lindsey Graham  R-S.C.  told reporters there was more negotiating to be done.
The negotiations began in earnest at the end of December  months after  Trump  first announced in September 2017 that DACA would be ending and gave Congress until March 5 of this year to come up with a replacement.
As part of any agreement about DACA   Trump  has insisted that there be funding for a wall on the Southern border with Mexico  which many Democrats have opposed.  He  also called for ending the diversity visa lottery  a State Department program that gives residents of nations with few migrants coming to the U.S. a chance for a green card  and for ending family-based migration (called "chain migration" by its opponents) that allows extended family members of immigrants already in the U.S. legally to come to the U.S. as well.
Trump Uses Vulgar Language To Refer To African Countries  Sources Say
Updated at  [TGT] 
on Thursday referred to African nations as "s***hole countries" during a meeting on immigration with a bipartisan group of senators  according to a Democratic aide and another person familiar with the conversation.
  [TGT] made the comment during a discussion of U.S. visa and immigration policies inside the Oval Office.   [TGT] was meeting with the senators to discuss a bipartisan plan to grant legal protections to the roughly 800 000 immigrants who are in the country illegally after being brought to the country as children. During the conversation   [TGT]   also questioned why the U.S would want to accept people from countries like Haiti and said the U.S. should want more people from countries like Norway  the aides said.
The senators had hoped to persuade   [TGT]   to support their plan  which pairs increased funding for border security with new legal status for immigrants who were previously protected under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program  also known as DACA. The White House rejected the plan and asked the senators to keep working on a new proposal.
The White House issued a statement rejecting "weak and dangerous stopgap measures" on immigration but did not deny   [TGT]  's remarks.
"The President will only accept an immigration deal that adequately addresses the visa lottery system and chain migration â two programs that hurt our economy and allow terrorists into our country " said deputy White House press secretary Raj Shah. "Like other nations that have  [TGT] is fighting for permanent solutions that make our country stronger by welcoming those who can contribute to our society  grow our economy and assimilate into our great nation."
Later that afternoon  after members of the six-person Senate group presented their agreement to   [TGT]    Sen. Lindsey Graham  R-S.C.  told reporters there was more negotiating to be done.
The negotiations began in earnest at the end of December  months after   [TGT] first announced in September 2017 that DACA would be ending and gave Congress until March 5 of this year to come up with a replacement.
As part of any agreement about DACA   Trump  has insisted that there be funding for a wall on the Southern border with Mexico  which many Democrats have opposed.  He  also called for ending the diversity visa lottery  a State Department program that gives residents of nations with few migrants coming to the U.S. a chance for a green card  and for ending family-based migration (called "chain migration" by its opponents) that allows extended family members of immigrants already in the U.S. legally to come to the U.S. as well.