To the editor: With the topic of Haitian immigrants developing within the presidential debate, there’s one other connection between that nation and Donald Trump that appears related now. (“Trump’s Haitian immigrant feedback create a storm in Florida,” Sept. 13)
On Jan. 11, 2018, then-President Trump had a gathering within the White Home with a bipartisan group of senators. The topic was immigration. Sooner or later within the assembly, Trump known as Haiti and African nations “shithole nations.” The subsequent day he denied utilizing these phrases. No senators within the room at that assembly denied the president used these phrases.
Buried below Trump’s invective, after all, is a authentic debate on immigration. However of all of the rhetorical choices he might have used, the president selected language that invited acrimony. I can see no justifiable upside to beginning fights with different nations.
Extra broadly, this factors to his misuse of the political capital that comes with the U.S. presidency. That capital belongs to Americans. Together with his careless remarks, the president depleted that account and shrunk our standing on the planet.
We should always count on, and may get, higher management than this.
Paul Skophammer, Malibu
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To the editor: The Haitians in Springfield, Ohio, are usually not right here illegally. They’ve non permanent protected standing. They don’t seem to be consuming folks’s pets. They’re working. Certainly Trump and vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) know this.
The Haitians are refugees — the drained, hungry and poor, identical to it says on the Statue of Liberty. In case you observe Christianity, then you will need to imagine that these individuals who got here right here in search of a house are our brothers and sisters. And we must always give them safety.
By maligning them in such a imply approach and figuring out that their followers will imagine any loopy lie he tells them, Trump and Vance place these folks in hurt’s approach. If we give Trump again the ability of the presidency, he can hurt these refugees who’ve come right here in search of safety, and he wouldn’t be held legally accountable if he breaks the legislation doing so, due to the U.S. Supreme Court docket’s immunity ruling.
Alba Farfaglia, San Clemente
