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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Nov 22, 2017, 09:17 PM Nov 2017

Philly mayor calls Trump a 'bully' and 'punk' after decision to end residency program for Haitians

Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) lashed out against President Trump on Wednesday following the administration's decision to cancel a key immigration program for nearly 60,000 Haitians.

Speaking to a group of advocates and city residents in support of refugees and immigrants, Kenney apparently went off script near the end of his remarks.

"I'm just beside myself with sadness because our president is a bully, our president is a punk, and he just doesn't get it. I don't know where he was raised but his family didn't do a good job raising that guy," Kenney said, according to a local NBC affiliate.

Prior to his critique of Trump, Kenney was discussing Temporary Protected Status (TPS), a program that gives residency and work permits to around 300,000 foreign nationals from countries that have undergone major disasters.

On Monday, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Elaine Duke announced she was canceling TPS for the nearly 60,000 Haitians who've been in the program since a 2010 earthquake ravaged their country.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/philly-mayor-calls-trump-a-bully-and-punk-after-decision-to-end-residency-program-for-haitians/ar-BBFvPCj?li=BBnbcA1&ocid=edgsp

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Philly mayor calls Trump a 'bully' and 'punk' after decision to end residency program for Haitians (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2017 OP
He forgot racist. This is what this is all about. Heaven forbid those secondwind Nov 2017 #1
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