ITT FYI: “Shithole Countries”

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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After President Trump referred to Haiti, El Salvador, and countries in Africa as “shithole countries,” we ask: Could this have legal implications for the president? Maria and Julio have a quick convo about it.

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0:00.0	The president said on Thursday in a meeting to discuss immigration reform.
0:10.0	El Salvador, Haiti, African countries are shaholes and why aren't there more immigrants coming
0:15.6	from places like Norway?
0:17.8	Trump is denying that he said that word, but he is saying that he used, quote, tough language.
0:25.0	So we got on the phone with Julio.
0:28.8	Yo.
0:29.6	Julio.
0:30.3	Hey.
0:30.9	I had to stop myself last night. My instinct is to start tweeting about this to start and then I'm just like but I can't I cannot
0:40.4	Yeah, here's the thing Julio, the president, has opened himself up here for a really interesting legal battle because part of the reason why DACA was reinstated by that judge is because of the racial
0:56.8	animus that President Trump has shown towards Mexicans because we know this.
1:04.4	Yeah.
1:05.4	It's a verdad, we see it.
1:07.4	He has just shown racial animus.
1:11.6	The United Nations has just released a statement calling him a racist.
1:15.6	In terms of creating the shith homes, America is really good at turning like wonderful countries. They're almost like the direct cause of all this and
1:27.1	especially when it comes to Central America and a lot of people resonating with that.
1:30.6	No one's really talking about that. The racial animus thing is huge. This is going to be used in court
1:37.1	again soon. This is going to come back and haunt them.
1:40.0	But then it's like, but where will it go? Are we thinking that this is going to end up in the Supreme Court.
1:43.8	And in that case, then what?
1:46.1	And the other thing that I'm thinking about, Julio,
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