NYS Senator James Sanders Jr's Open Letter to Donald Trump

Senator James Sanders Jr. recently wrote a letter to President Trump expressing his outrage over the Commander-In-Chief's latest racist and anti-immigrant remarks. The letter is supported and co-signed by Senator Leroy Comrie and Assembly Member Alicia Hyndman.

 
January 12, 2018

President Donald Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Trump,

We are deeply disturbed and offended by the callous and racist remarks you made yesterday, in which you rejected a bi-partisan proposal to protect immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and parts of Africa, which you allegedly called “s**thole” countries. Instead, you said we should be welcoming more immigrants from countries like Norway, which is predominantly Caucasian.

The United States is a nation of immigrants and a melting pot of cultures and that means accepting people from everywhere including nations inhabited by people of color. Your ignorant statement further solidifies the anti-immigrant agenda that you have constantly pushed forward through actions like the Muslim Ban, the proposed Mexican wall, and the ending of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, Salvadorians and Nicaraguans, as well as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA).

You don’t want to make America great. You want to make America white. You want to select who populates this country by sealing out those you believe are undesirable. Those undesirables, however, are the people who work hard to achieve the American Dream and that is something that benefits all of us.

We demand that you issue an apology for your remarks, lead a humanitarian effort to help improve the conditions in the so-called “s**thole” countries, extend TPS for immigrants from those countries and create an affective pathway to citizenship for them.

We believe that all Americans of good faith will join us in a show of unity and strength to remind you that you cannot continue to embarrass our country through foolish deeds and actions. The United States is often held up as an example for the rest of the globe and we should behave accordingly.

Source: The Office of State Senator James Sanders, Jr.