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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda
WASHINGTON Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged.
Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nations airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the United States in a dramatic demonstration of how he would deliver on his campaign promise to fortify the nations borders.
But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge. Friends were calling to say he looked like a fool, Mr. Trump said.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
Five months before, Mr. Trump had dispatched federal officers to the nations airports to stop travelers from several Muslim countries from entering the United States in a dramatic demonstration of how he would deliver on his campaign promise to fortify the nations borders.
But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge. Friends were calling to say he looked like a fool, Mr. Trump said.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
Full article, to be a front page article in Sunday's NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html
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NYT: Stoking Fears, Trump Defied Bureaucracy to Advance Immigration Agenda (Original Post)
alp227
Dec 2017
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Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)1. And Trump still imports foreign workers
dalton99a
(81,519 posts)2. Yep.
Igel
(35,320 posts)4. And yet gets grief for making it more difficult to get a HB-1 visa.
dalton99a
(81,519 posts)3. Trump is a lifelong racist just like his father