U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday blamed Sen. Dick Durbin for blowing up talks on a deal to help immigrants brought to the country illegally as children and said the Democratic lawmaker misrepresented his comments about Haiti and African countries.
"Senator Dicky Durbin totally misrepresented what was said at the DACA meeting," Trump said in a post on Twitter, referring to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program that gave legal protection to the young immigrants known as "Dreamers."
Durbin has said Trump used the term "shithole" when speaking about Haiti and African countries during the meeting about immigration policy at the White House last week.
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