During a press conference on Friday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D., Ill.) recalled how he told President Donald Trump that the term "chain migration" was offensive.
Durbin confirmed an accusation that the president called African countries and Haiti "s—holes" during a Thursday meeting with a bipartisan group of lawmakers, calling the comments "offensive."
But Durbin also says he took offense to something else the president said: "When we came to the issue of, quote, ‘chain migration,' I said to the president, ‘Do you realize how painful that term is to so many people?'"
"African-Americans believe that they migrated to America in chains, and when you speak about chain migration, it hurts them personally,'" he recalled. "He [Trump] said, ‘oh that’s a good line.'"
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