Washington, May 31 (Prensa Latina) U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters said today that President Donald Trump is demonstrating the utmost racism by attempting to expel 500,000 legal immigrants from the country.
Waters, the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, condemned the administration’s policy following the Supreme Court’s decision allowing the Trump administration to end humanitarian parole for migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.
“I am appalled that the Supreme Court is allowing Trump to proceed with these racist deportation plans targeting legal, law-abiding immigrants who work, raise families, and contribute positively to their communities,” he said in a press release posted on his website.
The affected individuals followed a legal process to apply for and receive parole, which has allowed them to enter the United States and live and work here legally for two years, argued Waters, a representative from California since 1991.
He also considered it “absolutely cruel that Donald Trump would interfere in that process,” revoke their parole with virtually no warning, uproot them from their families, sponsors, and communities, and deport them.
He recalled that, during his election campaign, and even after his election, Trump “held rallies with racist and derogatory comments and outright lies about immigrants, especially Haitians, in an attempt to sow fear among the American people.”
He warned that their baseless attacks “caused irreparable damage to communities across the country and further tarnished America’s image around the world.”
The congresswoman also criticized Trump for “the false narrative about the genocide of white South Africans,” noting that the president “lied to the American people and the world by perpetuating a narrative” and then “used these lies to justify the arrival of white South Africans to the United States as refugees.”
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, the US intelligence community, and the international community have confirmed that Trump lied about South Africa, he concluded.
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