while I might say Haiti is a shit hole [ which it is] I would not be talking about the people of Haiti.
I wouldn't describe any country that way. Is there horrific poverty in Haiti? I've had friends and family see it firsthand. (I've never been myself, not yet.) I've had Haitian friends describe it. But, see, that's the thing, even in underdeveloped countries like Haiti, you often see radical inequality. There is a small elite in Port-au-Prince that lives in really, really nice homes. Mansions. Close to as palatial as homes of the 1% you'd find in the U.S.
But again, if you're going to judge nations by their worst neighborhoods and conditions, well, we have plenty of those slum "shitholes" here in the U.S. too - from the same causes - underdevelopment, underinvestment, neglect.
Here's the biggest irony. Do you know Haiti was once one of the wealthiest countries in the Western Hemisphere? Your next question is what happened. You might not want to look too deeply into that.
http://amsterdamnews.com/news/2014/oct/ ... emisphere/Finally, once we get past the obvious racist framing of Trump's question, and his use of swearwords, it comes down to something that just shows his basic ignorance. Immigration all over the world is almost always from poorer to wealthier nations. That's how it works everywhere. Yes, people are fleeing oppression, disasters, trying to rejoin family; but the main driver for most people is economic opportunity. Once you get past everything else, you still run into Trump's fundamental stupidity over how basic things in the world work.
People with a better life already are not going to immigrate to another country. That's
obvious. My grandfather didn't come to the U.S. in the 1920s because things were sweet and peachy for him in Europe. Of course, it wasn't just economic opportunity. There were some other dangers building for Jewish people, and even in the 20s people could sense it.
What galls me deep down, besides the racism implied in the question, was the very stupidity behind having to ask it.