Trump Defends Visa Requirement, Baselessly Claims Gang Members Coming From Bahamas

President Donald Trump speaks to the press on the South Lawn of the White House. (Photo credit: NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump defended on Monday the policy requiring Bahamian evacuees to have U.S. visas by claiming without evidence that “gang members” and “drug dealers” were trying to get into the country with the evacuees.

Echoing the same racist rhetoric he’s previously employed about immigrants and Mexicans, Trump said he doesn’t want to allow “people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.”

“Everybody needs totally proper documentation,” Trump told reporters.

His comments contradict those of acting Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Mark Morgan, who said several hours earlier that evacuees from the Bahamas would be allowed to enter the U.S. “whether you have travel documents or not.”

Hurricane survivors on a ferry destined for Florida on Sunday were ordered to disembark if they did not have a U.S. visa.

Dorian, a category five storm, decimated the Bahamas over the weekend, leaving at least 43 people dead and 70,000 other displaced.

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  1. It seems like the movie Scarface must be playing in Trump’s head on an endless loop - where else could he possibly be getting this crap?

    Say hello to my little racist immigration policy!

  2. Avatar for luckie luckie says:

    He is just an awful awful person. And he seems to be really scared of people that don’t look exactly like him.

  3. If they claimed to be members of the Taliban, he’d invite them to Camp David.

  4. I hope trump dies the most painful, most exposing, most revealing death one can imagine. To turn back people who have had their lives shredded and who obviously have only the clothes on their backs by a savage storm that didn’t hit Alabama and who therefore don’t happen to have that visa that was in that dresser that got mangled and is now sunk in a harbor is cruelty beyond belief.
    Sorry for the run on sentence…

  5. Trump must be very impressed by the prescience of gang members and drug dealers — what a plan! Manufacture a major hurricane, and infiltrate the US with the refugees after the storm. Gotta work…

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