Former President Donald Trump’s recent remarks concerning the influx of Haitian migrants at the Texas border have proved once again that a leopard cannot change its spots.
Trump has consistently voiced his discord over foreigners crossing the border, but his recent comments stunned many.
Trump appeared as a guest on Sean Hannity’s primetime show on Fox News.
“There’s one other thing that nobody talks about,” the former president said. “So we have hundreds of thousands of people flowing in from Haiti. Haiti has a tremendous AIDS problem. AIDS is a step beyond. AIDS is a real bad problem.”
The Haitian government released a statement, condemning Trump’s remarks:
The Haitian embassy in Washington called Trump out for his “racist and baseless statement about Haitian migrants, in particular, and the Haitian population, in general, of Donald J Trump.”
“These vile comments aim only to sow hatred and discord against immigrants,” the embassy said in a statement Friday.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that the migrants have AIDS.
Many of the Haitian migrants fled the island after Haitians a devastating earthquake struck the country in 2010. Another magnitude 7 earthquake rocked the country in August. Haiti has also endured years of political instability, which ultimately led to the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse in July.
Trump seldom pays much attention to the facts.
“So hundreds of thousands of people are coming into our country and if you look at the stats and you look at the numbers, if you look at just – take a look at what’s happening in Haiti, a tremendous problem with AIDS. Many of those people will probably have AIDS and they’re coming into our country,” he continued. “We don’t do anything about it. We let everybody come in. It’s like a death wish, like a death wish for our country.”
Trump went on to claims that several countries are sending newly-released prisoners to the U.S.
“I hear it’s 50 countries! They are emptying out their prisons into the United States,” he said. “Their jails, some of the toughest people on earth are being dumped into the United States because they don’t want them. They don’t want to take care of them for the next 40 years.”
Again, Trump has no evidence to back up his far-fetched theories.
