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Tanuki

(14,894 posts)
6. Oh yes.
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 04:25 PM
Sep 2019
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bahamas-hurricane-dorian-refugees-press-conference-today-a9098391.html%3famp

"Donald Trump has claimed the Bahamas is full of "very bad gang members", as he defended a decision not to let survivors of Hurricane Dorian enter the US.

A day after survivors of the storm were ordered off a boat from Freeport to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, if they did not have a US visa, and the official death toll on the islands rose to 45, Mr Trump doubled down on a decision not to do more to accommodate those struck by the record-equalling storm.
"We have to be very careful. Everyone needs totally proper documentation. I don't want to allow people who weren't supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people,” the president told reporters at the White House.
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Look, the Bahamas had some tremendous problems with people going to the Bahamas that weren't supposed to be there.”

With providing evidence to back his claim, he said the nation, that was struck by Dorian as it carried winds of 185 mph, had some “very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very very bad drug dealers”. (More)

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