US President Donald Trump on
Friday said the language he used during the meeting on the Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) was “tough” but he didn’t use the infamous “shithole
countries” term.
Trump had reportedly questioned
why the US would want to have immigrants from Haiti and African nations,
referring to some as “shithole countries”.
“The language used by me at the
DACA meeting was tough, but this was not the language used,” Trump tweeted.
Earlier in the day, the Office of
UN Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said the US president’s reported
remarks that immigrants were coming from “shithole countries” were racist.
Meanwhile, the Trump
administration has decided to end the status for immigrants from Haiti and
Nicaragua.
It gave the approximately 59,000
Haitian immigrants who had been granted the status until July 2019 to return
home or legalise their presence in the U.S.
Nicaraguans were given until
January 2019.
On Monday, Trump moved to end the
status for immigrants from El Salvador, which could result in 200,000
Salvadorans legally in the United States being deported, beginning in September
of 2019.
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