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Did you know that Haitians and Haitian-Americans represent the second largest black immigrant group living in the United States today?

Center for American Progress estimated that there are 3.7 million black immigrants currently in the United States. With the number of Haitians living in the US estimated at 676,000, we are only second to Jamaicans whom their number is estimated at 693,000. We may well surpass the Jamaicans if you want to take in consideration the Haitians living without legal documentation.

- 48 percent of all black immigrants come from the Caribbean,
- 43 percent come from African countries,
- 3.6 percent come from South America.

In 2015, there were about 676,000 Haitian immigrants in the United States. It was a significant rise from the 2010 figure of 587,000. Haitians account for nearly 2% of the U.S. foreign-born population. Out of the total 3.7 million immigrants in the U.S, 8.8% of the immigrant population are black. They come from a diverse group of countries, primarily in the Caribbean, Latin America-- 48% of them come from the Caribbean, 43% of African countries, and 3.6% from South America. Recent statistics show that the largest individual home countries of black immigrants in the United States today are Jamaica (693,000), Haiti (668,223), Nigeria (306,874), Ethiopia (244,924), and Trinidad and Tobago (242,661). In 2015, there were 619,000 unauthorized black immigrants living in the U.S. As per Centre for American Progress Report, about 29% of the black immigrants aged 25 and older hold a bachelor's or advanced degree, similar to the rate for all immigrants (30%) and overall U.S. population. Black immigrants from Africa are more likely than Americans overall to have a college degree or higher.

It is important to note that there were no numbers of Haitian immigrants before 1932 because then Haitians were the classified as Caribbean immigrants. Haitians started immigrating to the United States in the early 1800s, but did not receive much attention until the 1950s and early 1960s when Haitian immigration to the U.S. began to increase visibly. While just 5,000 Haitians lived in the United States in 1960, beginning in December 1972, a stream of Haitian "boat people" fled the brutal Duvalier dictatorship in Haiti for the United States. In May 1981, U.S. immigration officials began detaining all undocumented Haitians without the possibility of bond.

During 1950s and 1960s, the migrated Haitians were professional and highly-skilled workers, the Haitian educational and economic elite that were exiled by Duvalier. In the mid 1970s, Haitian immigrants were lower-middle class (known as boat people). Like many Latino groups of immigrants, Haitian immigrants initially intended to return to their homeland, but cannot because of unstable political and poor economic reasons.

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Here is a picture of an immigrant child that appeared with audio recording in June 2018. This picture appeared to capture the voices of small Spanish-speaking children is crying out for her parents at a US immigration facility. This image had become a symbol of family separation by the Trump Administration.

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Here is Donald Trump as Halloween costume

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Donald Trump has an estimated net worth of $4.5 billion as of April 2016, according to Forbes. Donald Trump talks big. Long before he started spinning and exaggerating things on his campaign trail, he himself upgraded the rating of his Trump University¡¯s Better Business Bureau to "A" grade. Recently, he has inflated and amplified the fortune he holds more than by 100%. In last May, Trump in a statement posted to his campaign site claimed that he is worth at least $10 billion and his worth had even increased in the year since he began his campaign. In 2015, when Trump began his presidential campaign, Bloomberg estimated his worth at $2.9 billion. During the same period, Fortune and a number of publications placed him between $3.7 and $3.9 million. As per Forbes, their consistent tracking of Trump's wealth since 1982 reveals that, the value of Trump's property in September 2015, including the value of his various aircrafts and licensing in his name, could reach a maximum total of $4.5 billion. Trump has consistently exaggerated how much he owns and downplayed how much he owes. So far, Trump has spent only $18 million of his $4.5 billion fortune on the campaign and his campaign has raised $25 million for him. Forbes placed him on the 324 rank on the World Billionaires list 2016 (Rank No: 405 on 2015) and rank 113 in the U.S, during 2016.

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Here is Donald Trump taking aim at Fox News anchor, Megyn Kelly.

On May 17, 2016, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly, debuted her primetime special ¡(r)Megyn Kelly¡¯ Presents. The big attraction of the night was her sit-down with the Republican Party nominee, presumptive presidential candidate Donald Trump. We might remember that in last year, on August 6th, Kelly had to respond Trump's personal attack, because Trump felt she unfairly questioned his antagonistic remarks about women. Kelly asked him about his history of calling women ¡°pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. Later, in his Twitter, Trump called Kelly a ¡°bimbo,¡± ¡°crazy,¡± and a ¡°lightweight,¡± and refused to participate in the next debate since Kelly was to serve as one of the moderators. In last April, Kelly mate met privately with Trump and asked for a truce and requested a seat in her primetime special. Kelly is a very popular anchor because she has never shied away from the tough questions. This time she asked Trump about his presidential aspirations, failed marriages, and his alcoholic brother. She also asked him whether he has any regrets over any controversial remarks. Trump said, yes, but he does not want to them discuss here. When finally Kelly asked him about the last feud and calling her 'bimbo', he said ¡°Did I say that?¡±, ¡°Okay, excuse me. That¡¯s not the most horrible thing. Over your life, you¡¯ve been called a lot worse¡± .The program ended in a formal way, but Kelly did not get the apology she deserved.

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Donald Trump and his famous statement: "Take America Back". Donald Trump has become famous for his campaign of insult comedy, but unfortunately some of his remarks have inspired some of supremacist groups, like the KKK (Ku Klux Klan), to recruit members to their racist organizations. To him Mexicans are rapists, all Muslims hate Americans and he vowed to build a wall to keep immigrants out of the United States. He wants to take back America in the olden era when there was no immigrant in the country. Following the declaration of Britain's 'Brexit' referendum result, Trump landed in Scotland. He congratulated the Scot people for their vote to take their country back and declared that the U.S would be the next. Because, on November 8th, the U.S people will vote for him and he will take America back to the days of independence and re-start from the beginning. He then added, "Americans will have a chance to vote for trade, immigration and foreign policies that put our citizens first. They will have the chance to reject today's rule by the global elite, and to embrace real change that delivers a government of, by and for the people." However, the problem was Scotland didn¡¯t vote to ¡(r)Leave¡¯ the UK. Scotland voted to stay in the EU by 62% to 38% in the referendum!

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Here is Donald Trump insulting the other candidates. Low-energy Jeb, Little Marco, Lyin' Ted, Crooked Hillary

One of the best things that Donald Trump has done very well in this campaign season is bestowing catchy nicknames upon his friends and foes, actually, mostly foes. He has a knack for nicknames, because he believes a nickname can hurt and speak a lot about a person. Men give nicknames as a way of being affectionate without compromising masculinity. Abraham Lincoln was known as ¡(r)Honest Abe¡¯, Vice President Dick Cheney was known as 'Big Time', Joseph Vissarionovich was known as 'Stalin', (Russian word §ã§ä§�'§Ý§î or stal) meaning "Steel", Che Guevara¡¯s name was Ernesto ¡ª Che translated that as ¡(r)hey¡¯. Trump's nicknames are often insulting, although he does not care much about that. He uses them at rallies, in debates and especially on Twitter. Here is a short list that includes some of the nicknames which he uses very often: Low-energy Jeb (John Ellis "Jeb" Bush: since: Twitter, on April 25, 2016) Crazy Bernie (Senator Bernie Sanders: since Campaign rally in Pensacola, Florida, on January 13, 2016), Crooked Hillary (Hillary Clinton: since Campaign rally in Watertown, New York, on April 16, 2016), Lyin' Ted (Senator Ted Cruz: since Campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on March 1, 2016), Little Marco (Junior Senator Marco Rubio: since Campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio, on March 1, 2016), and Truly Weird Rand Paul (Senator Rand Paul).

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Donald Trump has a plan to build border wall to keep immigrants out. He says he would build the wall & force Mexico to pay for it as president by threatening to cut off the flow of billions of dollars in payments that immigrants send home to Mexico.

In last April, Trump said he will force Mexico, a key regional ally of the U.S, to build a border wall stretching 1,000 miles, nearly the length of the southern border. The act of building the wall will be followed by a mass deportation, which will put all the illegal immigrants on the other side of the wall. In an earlier occasion, he made it clear that 'the United States without any illegal immigrant' is going to be one of his main campaign themes. He had further added that if Mexico does not pay a one time payment of $5--$10 billion for the wall, he would amend the rules of money transfer to Mexico. In 2015, nearly $25 billion was sent home by the Mexicans living abroad as per Mexican central bank's report (Banco de M¨¦xico or Banxico) and as per Trump, ¡°the majority of that amount came from illegal aliens

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Here is Donald Trump and his popular statement: 'I will Make America Great Again.

Many of the Republican Party¡¯s leaders and elected officials, who fought against Trump during the primary, are still reluctant to endorse him as the party's nominee to contest the United States¡¯ presidential election in November. Trump, now, aligning some of his policy proposals with the mainstream Republican ideas while maintaining his distinctive identity. People have listened his new promise from Richmond on Friday night, June 12, 2016: "Make America Great Again". This slogan was first used by Ronald Reagan during his 1980 presidential campaign when the United States was suffering from a worsening economy, marked by high unemployment and inflation. The word "Again" clearly indicates Trump¡¯s open admission that the superpower of the planet earth is on a decline. To make this slogan one of the important themes of his campaign, and in a bid to popularize the slogan, he was wearing hat bearing the phrase.

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The History Behind Donald Trump "Small Hands"

The Republican presidential nominee insisted that his hands are Strong and of Good size in a political debate.

The history behind Donald Trump's 'small hands' dates back to more than a quarter of a century ago when Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair referred him as a ¡°short-fingered vulgarian¡± in the pages of Spy magazine. Till today, Carter receives occasional envelopes from Trump with photos of his palm; generally they are from tear sheets of magazines. In all the photos, his palms are circled in gold Sharpie in a valiant effort to highlight the length of his fingers, and also they are marked with words in gold Sharpie: ¡°See, not so short!¡± But to Carter, the fingers still look abnormally stubby. Once he returned some pictures with a note saying, ¡°Actually, quite short.¡± However, Trump believes he has good-sized hands, because his supporters tell him, you have great hands, very strong hands. Your hands are fine and quite normal. Even in an article (Titled as: Donald Trump Gets What He Wants) published in GQ magazine (May 1984), Graydon Carter described Trump's hands as "The six-foot-two-inch frame is trim but well-nourished. The hands are small and neatly groomed." Recently, a pun ad declared: ¡°needs "a president who can grasp the complexity of the world and hold off the decline of a great nation."

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