Donald Trump says the US ‘won’t be a migrant camp’ and lashes out at Angela Merkel as fury builds over policy of dividing families
Trump’s remarks came as Merkel’s interior minister said he wanted Germany to turn away migrants if a deal could not be made with other EU countries; Merkel rebuffed him
US President Donald Trump said on Monday he would not allow the United States to become a “migrant camp” as he continued to defend his administration from a barrage of criticism for separating immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border.
“The United States will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee holding facility. It won’t be,” Trump said, while announcing an unrelated policy at the White House. You look at what’s happening in Europe, you look at what’s happening in other places - we can’t allow that to happen to the United States, not on my watch.”
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His remarks came hours after he attacked the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Twitter, seemingly in an attempt to deflect anger over the policy that is growing on both sides of the aisle in the US.
Trump said in a tweet on Monday morning, “The people of Germany are turning against their leadership as migration is rocking the already tenuous Berlin coalition.”
“Crime in Germany is way up,” he continued, although Germany’s interior ministry recorded the lowest crime levels since 1992 in May. “Big mistake made all over Europe in allowing millions of people in who have so strongly and violently changed their culture!”
In a second tweet, he wrote: “We don’t want what is happening with immigration in Europe to happen with us!”
