LWV Statement on the President's Discriminatory Comment

Washington, DC – League of Women Voters president Chris Carson issued the following statement in response to the reports of President Trump’s atrocious comments during a bipartisan meeting about immigration yesterday:

“We are appalled and disgusted by President Trump’s racist statement yesterday. Language and ideals like this have no place in our society, and certainly not in our White House.

“This administration has done little but implement policies that endorse discrimination against immigrants and communities of color. As a country of immigrants, we are made stronger by our diversity, and that we have crude and bigoted slurs emerging from the Oval Office is shameful. 

"This, now denied, comment from President Trump occurred during a meeting around a bipartisan compromise to extend protections on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); a policy the administration called an end for last year. The League of Women Voters urges our leaders to pass a clean DREAM Act to protect, not turn away, the 800,000 young people who were brought to the United States as children. We support the Dreamers, who are Americans in everything but the name.

"We can and we must do better to be vigilant about speaking out against racism. We must stand up as a nation and say this is unacceptable."

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