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Once again Donald Trump is under fire for being Donald Trump. Trump made the mistake of believing that a private meeting with democrats would remain private. Dick Durbin, the loathsome lefty Senator from Illinois, emerged from the meeting on immigration reform and asserted that Donald Trump had made a number of interesting remarks. In its usual haste to pound Trump, the media seized upon and circulated them without scrutiny in order to exact the maximum amount of damage on Trump and misrepresented much of what he said. The language was more colorful but it was not a departure from past expressions.
BTW, Trump did not call Haiti a sh*thole country.
This all comes in the aftermath of Trump discontinuing the Temporary Protection Status program for a number of countries.
Last week, the Trump administration announced that they would not renew “Temporary Protected Status” (TPS) for nearly 200,000 Salvadorans residing in America, meaning that those individuals would need to leave the country by 2019, or face deportation. The administration had already decided in December not to renew TPS for about 60,000 Haitians and Nicaraguans, and may soon announce an end to TPS for 57,000 Hondurans.
Many countries in Africa are sh*tholes. Thing is, Trump is not alone that belief.
Huffington Post: The 10 Worst Countries For Human Rights
In its 2014 Human Rights Risk Atlas, global analytics firm Maplecroft revealed that in the past six years, the number of countries with an “extreme risk” of human rights offenses has risen dramatically.
Evaluating 197 countries on various human rights violations, Maplecroft classified 20 countries as having an extreme human rights risk in 2008. That number has since risen to 34. Of the countries with a high risk of violations, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Mali and Guinea-Bissau have seen the worst deterioration of their human rights situation, according to the report.
Geographically speaking, nations in the Middle East and North Africa account for the vast majority of the countries in the “extreme risk” category. With state repression of protests and widespread conflict, Syria ranks highest among the countries evaluated.
Several countries in sub-Saharan Africa also made the list of the top 10 worst offenders, primarily for ongoing ethnic conflicts and sexual violence.
However, state repression and violence are far from the only stimuli for human rights violations. In countries with emerging economies, for example, the potential for work-related offenses is growing.
VOA: 17 Countries Top List Of World’s Worst Human Rights Abusers
Seven African countries figure among the list of the world’s worst violators. Osman Hummaida, the executive director of the African Center for Justice and Peace Studies, is from northern Sudan. He lives in exile in Uganda.
Human Rights in Sub-Saharan Africa: Female Genitalia as National and Community Property
The violence directed at African women’s sex is shocking. Perhaps most familiar to the West are
the human rights atrocities such as ethnic rapes in Rwanda, women’s sexual enslavement in the wars
of Liberia and Ivory Coast during the 1990s, and the tactic of spreading HIV/AIDS through sexual
assault campaigns in Sierra Leone. From gang rapes to attacks so brutal as to leave girls permanently
disabled, African women are encountering levels of sexual violence relatively unprecedented in
modernity. In Sierra Leone, it is estimated that more than 72 percent of women and girls were
victims of wartime violence, 50 percent of that sexual in nature (Nowrojee 2005).
Rapes by alleged protectors reveal gaps in international mechanisms designed to shield wartime
populations from violence—there were several cases of sexual violence by peacekeepers with the
UN Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL). These included the rape of a twelve-year-old girl and the
gang rape of a woman by two Ukrainian soldiers. Peacekeepers with both the Economic Community
of West African States Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) and UNAMSIL sexually exploited
women—and solicited child prostitutes—during their “peacekeeping” missions.
If these aren’t sh*thole countries, then they do not need Temporary Protected Status and we do not need to allow them to immigrate here.
Speaking of sh*tshows- down the media memory hole went Barack Obama’s calling Libya a “sh*tshow.”
“So we actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: We got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1 billion — which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict. And despite all that, Libya is a mess.
Mess is the president’s diplomatic term; privately, he calls Libya a “shit show,” in part because it’s subsequently become an ISIS haven — one that he has already targeted with air strikes. It became a shit show, Obama believes, for reasons that had less to do with American incompetence than with the passivity of America’s allies and with the obdurate power of tribalism.
No outrage.
Obama’s actions in Libya resulted in a thriving black slave trade there. Where’s the outrage for that?
And Lindsay Graham? Graham repeatedly repeatedly referred to nations south of the border as “hellholes.”
“The people coming across the southern border live in hellholes. They don’t like that. They want to come here. Our problem is we can’t have everybody in the world who lives in a hellhole come to America,” Mr. Graham said during a 2013 debate in the Judiciary Committee on an immigration bill he co-authored.
The senator continued: “There are 11 million people coming through the southern border ‘cause they come from countries where they can’t find work, and life is miserable. So it seems to me that if you can control who gets a job you’ve gone a long way in controlling illegal immigration. Because as long as the jobs are available in America you can’t build a fence high enough to stop people.”
No outrage. Why?
Because not Donald Trump.
Neither Stephen Colbert nor any other left wing mouthpiece was critical of obama for his comments or for the dreadful legacy he created for Libya. Why?
Because democrats.
Hillary Clinton had to weigh in on the Trump comments. The Clinton’s screwed up post-earthquake Haiti and friends and family managed to score following Clinton efforts there. No real outrage. No late night snark. Why?
Because Clinton’s. Because democrats.
This will blow over soon. It’s one more desperate effort to bash Trump and cripple his Presidency. Collusion, obstruction and dementia have all failed to stick. The race card is old and tattered from its overuse but it’s always one democrats are quick to whip out. It won’t work either. People understand that there are a lot sh*thole countries in the world. Here is an article from the African Exponent which lists the top ten reasons Africa is still poor. The top two reasons?
- Civil wars and terrorism
- The Unending Corruption
Time to get real. It’s the denial of the truth that allows this to continue, i.e. democrats. The best remedy is not for everyone to leave, it is foster change from within.
Did I forget to mention Female Genital Mutilation?
This was a genius move by Trump. democrats are now scrambling to condemn Trump’s comments that those countries are sh*tholes and they have fallen into a trap. If these countries are not sh*tholes their citizens do not require protection status and their immigration to the US is unnecessary. democrats are in no position to argue otherwise.
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Except for liberals being foolish.