Inside the Oval Office Immigration Meeting That Left a Senator Stunned
“The deck was stacked against us as the president walked in the room,” said Mr. Durbin, who said Mr. Graham, seated next
to the president, began laying out the specifics of the pending agreement only to have the meeting quickly deteriorate.
He said he warned Mr. Trump that singling out Haitians for exclusion was “an obvious racial decision.”
“This may not be about security or American jobs at all,” Mr. Durbin said.
“It was a very tough conversation starting immediately.”
“The language that was used, the attitude of the president, the expressions he made when it came to immigration just stunned me,” Mr. Durbin said.
“They said, ‘You look shaken,’ and I said I was,” he said.
