Hut People

On Saturday, The New York Times published a very detailed article (link here) about how Donald Trump is attempting to stop not only as much immigration to the United States as possible, except if you're a white person, but how he even wants to prohibit people from certain races and countries from visiting the United States.

Not only does this fly in the face of America's centuries-old history as "the land of immigrants," it also underscores how Trump does not understand that US law and the constitution prohibit him from limiting entry to one ethic sub-group or set of nations.

The article also reveals, once again, that Trump is a shameless racist. Six individuals attending the meeting confirmed that Trump said the following:

When he learned 15,000 Haitians had entered the country with visas this year, he said they "all have AIDS."

When he learned 40,000 Nigerians had entered the country with visas this year, he said that once they saw the United States, they would not "go back to their huts" in Africa.

He was utterly silent about visa stats for white people entering from Europe.

Notwithstanding Trump's racist slur about Nigerians, he clearly doesn't understand visitors and immigrants from their nation. Nigerians immigrating to the United States have the highest level of education when compared to immigrants from all other nations in the world (details here).

Intelligent, highly educated immigrants have a higher earning potential and greater likelihood of creating jobs than the average native-born American. Trump should be begging more immigrants like this to enter the country.

But, of course, his racism prevents this.