White House says Trump's use of 'animals' to describe MS-13 wasn't strong enough
Source: Yahoo News
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday sharply defended President Trumps characterization of undocumented immigrants who commit violent crimes as animals.
The president was very clearly referring to MS-13 gang members who entered the country illegally and whose deportations are hamstrung by our laws, Sanders told reporters at a White House press briefing. This one of the most vicious and deadly gangs that operate by the motto of rape, control and kill.
During a roundtable discussion about Californias sanctuary cities laws at the White House on Wednesday afternoon, Trump used the term animals after a Fresno County sheriff complained that legal restrictions placed on ICE databases make it difficult to track members of the MS-13 gang.
We have people coming into the country, who are trying to come in, and were stopping a lot of them, but were taking people out of the country, you wouldnt believe how bad these people are, Trump said. These arent people. These are animals.
The comment sparked controversy as some critics and media reports suggested Trump was using the term to broadly describe all immigrants.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-use-animals-describe-ms-13-gang-members-wasnt-strong-enough-white-house-says-185118738.html
Sarah Huckleberry doubles down on the racism and xenophobia.
SWBTATTReg
(22,176 posts)what about the other gangs and so forth already in this country who probably are truly animals too? Or, are you just hyping one issue over and over again, to keep your troll base interested? Hey! Look at the shiny ball! Hey! Hey you! Look!
Hypocrites...overwhelming number of immigrants are good, decent folks wanting a good life too.
mahannah
(893 posts)Hulk
(6,699 posts)...isnt strong enough either. Such a sad, tragic blemish on this nations already checkered history of shameful tragedies.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,496 posts)A few more hate tags: Liberal, government, Democrat, Islamic, terror or terrorist, welfare or entitlement. Books could be written just on their system of emotional triggers. Next, they'll want to issue each citizen mandatory badges to wear, like Nazis did with Jews.
Bernado, from what I've read, MS-13 is a problem and it's being thoroughly tracked by the FBI but nowhere near the scope that tRump is making it out to be. And, it's a relatively minor issue compared to the vast number of white hate groups.
musette_sf
(10,206 posts)who tortures animals? YOU call him "my big brother David". Animal torturers are the lowest of the low.
https://jezebel.com/that-time-mike-huckabees-loser-son-allegedly-tortured-a-1702327150
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)MS-13 is not in the sentences where he calls illegals animals.
BlueStater
(7,596 posts)But that would be a total insult to fecal matter, of which, unlike Trump, actually has a productive use in society.
Maeve
(42,297 posts)And if you're not clear on just who we're dehumanizing..."some of them I suppose are good people"
It's not like this is his first time labeling people...https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/05/17/trumps-long-history-of-referring-to-nonwhite-criminals-as-animals/?utm_term=.3ae7fad4d8b7
Nitram
(22,913 posts)immigration issue.