Mayor Pugh, Other Local Leaders Condemn Trump’s ‘Shithole Countries’ Label

1/15/18

By Ethan McLeod, Baltimore Fishbowl

Donald Trump

Baltimore’s mayor was among a number of Maryland electeds who strongly condemned President Donald Trump’s unfiltered, xenophobic label for several countries on Thursday.

“Why do we want all these people from ‘shithole countries’ coming here?” the president of the United States posed during a Thursday meeting with U.S. Senate and House members, according to The Washington Post.

He was referring to El Salvador, Haiti and African countries from which some immigrants would have been protected in a deal for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which Trump rejected.

His remarks offended Baltimore’s mayor.

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