Many Dems and even a few Repubs are speaking out against Trump’s deplorable sh*thole comments on immigration, but I thought Chellie’s were quite good:
“President Trump’s racist comments about immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador, and countries in Africa are absolutely sickening, even for him. It’s frightening to have someone in the White House with this kind of ignorance and lack of compassion. He knows absolutely nothing about these people—the pain they’ve faced, their harrowing journeys, or their commitment to our country, much less the cultural vibrancy of the countries they came from. His words are slanderous to our legacy as a nation of immigrants.
Chellie doubts that her Grandfather — an immigrant from Trump’s favored nation Norway — would choose today to pull up stakes and move to the United States today:
"My grandfather is part of that legacy. He came to America from Norway, where he met my grandmother and started a dairy farm. Today, I don’t think he would consider giving up paid family leave, health care for all, and the highest rates of education spending in his home country for a nation where the President so disgustingly discounts people who have fled natural disasters, genocide, and poverty to start over in America.”
I am proud that Chellie represents my state and district in Congress, and also proud that Angus King is my senator. I’m very disappointed in Susan Collins, but we are stuck with her for the time being. Hopefully my friends in Maine’s Second District can find a way to remove the Tea Party clown Bruce Poliquin in November,
Chellie deserves another Democrat from Maine to serve along side her.