US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday (Jan 16) he wants immigrants to come to the United States “from everywhere,” according to participants at a White House meeting – a remark in stark contrast with his alleged denunciation of immigration from “s***hole countries” last week.
“We want them to come in from everywhere,” the president said when asked about immigration policy during an Oval Office meeting with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.
But the controversy over Trump’s reported slur on Jan 11 raged on in Washington, as Republicans and Democrats attempt to reach a compromise on the fate of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) recipients.