In a shocking endorsement of American radio host Michael Savage’s racist rant, US President Donald Trump has reposted his letter, which referred to India, China, and other nations as “hellholes”.
In his letter calling for amendments to the United States’ Birthright Citizenship law, Savage alleged that people from India, China, and other “helllholes” come to the US in the ninth month of their pregnancy and give birth to a child who becomes an instant citizen.
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“A baby here becomes an instant citizen, and then they bring the entire family in from China or India or some other hellhole on the planet. You don’t have to go too far to see that. English is not spoken here anymore. That there’s almost no loyalty to this country amongst the immigrant class coming in today, which was not always the case,” Savage wrote in the letter reposted by the US President.
Calling for a national referendum on the birthright citizenship law, the controversial radio host argued that these immigrants are “not like the European Americans of today and their ancestors”.
“The Irish integrated, the Italians integrated, the Polish integrated, the Lithuanians, the Romanians, the Russians. They all integrated and became Americans in the melting pot. The idea of the melting pot is long over. It is now just a cash-in pot.”
Referring to a Supreme Court hearing where a Chinese-American attorney was arguing in favour of what he called “flooding America with illegal aliens,” Savage alleged that the US is being overrun with Chinese coming here just to “drop a baby on our shores” and then bring in the entire family.
He said that these immigrants are “destroying our national identity” and want to turn America into a colony of China and India.
“Our nation is being overrun with Chinese coming here just to drop a baby on our shores to then bring in the entire family. How about some common sense in a bankrupt nation. ACLU Attorney Wang is pushing to destroy our national identity, turn us into a colony of China, but it’s not limited to China, it’s also India,” he said.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump had also questioned the birthright citizenship law in the US, falsely claiming that no other country grants such citizenship. However, birthright citizenship is granted by several other countries, including Canada and Mexico.