Le New York Times a rapporté samedi des propos insultants envers les immigrants d’Haïti et du Nigeria qu’aurait tenus le président des Etats-Unis Donald Trump en juin dernier, lors d’une réunion à la Maison blanche.
Les immigrés haïtiens arrivés aux Etats-Unis «ont tous le sida», tandis que les nigérians devraient «retourner dans leurs huttes», aurait lancé M. Trump, alors qu’il discutait des derniers chiffres de l’immigration dans le Bureau ovale, entouré de ses plus proches conseillers.
Le quotidien new-yorkais cite deux sources anonymes pour appuyer ses dires, l’une ayant assisté à la réunion, l’autre qui en a reçu un compte-rendu par une deuxième personne présente à cette réunion.
La Maison blanche a réfuté. «Le général Kelly, le général McMaster, le secrétaire d’État Tillerson, le secrétaire Nielsen et d’autres membres du staff qui étaient présents à cette réunion démentent ces allégations outrageantes», a commenté la porte-parole de la Maison blanche Sarah Sanders, citée par le journal.
«C’est à la fois triste et révélateur que le New York Times publie les mensonges de leurs ’sources’ anonymes», a-t-elle ajouté.
En 2016, le candidat Donald Trump avait fait campagne pour durcir les contrôles aux frontières et réduire l’immigration, mais une fois élu, ses décrets migratoires interdisant de façon permanente le franchissement des frontières américaines aux ressortissants de sept pays ont buté sur des décisions de justice, avant d’entrer en vigueur au début du mois.
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Donald Trump, président des États-Unis, rageant contre les 15 000 Haïtiens ayant obtenu des visas pour visiter les États-Unis en 2017, selon un compte-rendu du New York Times aussitôt démenti par la Maison-Blanche et qui contient également des propos dénigrants à propos de quelque 40 000 visiteurs nigérians qui ne retourneraient «jamais dans leurs huttes» en Afrique.Voici dessous l’article du New York Times dans son integralité.
TRUMP’S WAY
STOKING FEARS, TRUMP DEFIED BUREAUCRACY TO ADVANCE IMMIGRATION AGENDA
The changes have had far-reaching consequences, both for the immigrants who have sought to make a new home in this country and for America’s image in the world.
WASHINGTON — Late to his own meeting and waving a sheet of numbers, President Trump stormed into the Oval Office one day in June, plainly enraged.
But so many foreigners had flooded into the country since January, he vented to his national security team, that it was making a mockery of his pledge. Friends were calling to say he looked like a fool, Mr. Trump said.
According to six officials who attended or were briefed about the meeting, Mr. Trump then began reading aloud from the document, which his domestic policy adviser, Stephen Miller, had given him just before the meeting. The document listed how many immigrants had received visas to enter the United States in 2017.
More than 2,500 were from Afghanistan, a terrorist haven, the president complained.
Haiti had sent 15,000 people. They “all have AIDS,” he grumbled, according to one person who attended the meeting and another person who was briefed about it by a different person who was there.
Forty thousand had come from Nigeria, Mr. Trump added. Once they had seen the United States, they would never “go back to their huts” in Africa, recalled the two officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss a sensitive conversation in the Oval Office.
As the meeting continued, John F. Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, and Rex W. Tillerson, the secretary of state, tried to interject, explaining that many were short-term travelers making one-time visits. But as the president continued, Mr. Kelly and Mr. Miller turned their ire on Mr. Tillerson, blaming him for the influx of foreigners and prompting the secretary of state to throw up his arms in frustration. If he was so bad at his job, maybe he should stop issuing visas altogether, Mr. Tillerson fired back.
Tempers flared and Mr. Kelly asked that the room be cleared of staff members. But even after the door to the Oval Office was closed, aides could still hear the president berating his most senior advisers.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, denied on Saturday morning that Mr. Trump had made derogatory statements about immigrants during the meeting.
“General Kelly, General McMaster, Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Nielsen and all other senior staff actually in the meeting deny these outrageous claims,” she said, referring to the current White House chief of staff, the national security adviser and the secretaries of state and homeland security. “It’s both sad and telling The New York Times would print the lies of their anonymous ‘sources’ anyway.”
While the White House did not deny the overall description of the meeting, officials strenuously insisted that Mr. Trump never used the words “AIDS” or “huts” to describe people from any country. Several participants in the meeting told Times reporters that they did not recall the president using those words and did not think he had, but the two officials who described the comments found them so noteworthy that they related them to others at the time.
The meeting in June reflects Mr. Trump’s visceral approach to an issue that defined his campaign and has indelibly shaped the first year of his presidency.
How We Reported This Story
The Times conducted over three dozen interviews with current and former administration officials, lawmakers and others close to the process.
Seizing on immigration as the cause of countless social and economic problems, Mr. Trump entered office with an agenda of symbolic but incompletely thought-out goals, the product not of rigorous policy debate but of emotionally charged personal interactions and an instinct for tapping into the nativist views of white working-class Americans.
Like many of his initiatives, his effort to change American immigration policy has been executed through a disorderly and dysfunctional process that sought from the start to defy the bureaucracy charged with enforcing it, according to interviews with three dozen current and former administration officials, lawmakers and others close to the process, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to detail private interactions.
But while Mr. Trump has been repeatedly frustrated by the limits of his power, his efforts to remake decades of immigration policy have gained increasing momentum as the White House became more disciplined and adept at either ignoring or undercutting the entrenched opposition of many parts of the government. The resulting changes have had far-reaching consequences, not only for the immigrants who have sought to make a new home in this country, but also for the United States’ image in the world.
“We have taken a giant steamliner barreling full speed,” Mr. Miller said in a recent interview. “Slowed it, stopped it, begun to turn it around and started sailing in the other direction.”
It is an assessment shared ruefully by Mr. Trump’s harshest critics, who see a darker view of the past year. Frank Sharry, the executive director of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, argues that the president’s immigration agenda is motivated by racism.
“He’s basically saying, ‘You people of color coming to America seeking the American dream are a threat to the white people,’” said Mr. Sharry, an outspoken critic of the president. “He’s come into office with an aggressive strategy of trying to reverse the demographic changes underway in America.”
Mr. Trump’s campaign promises included building a wall — and making Mexico pay for it — as well as barring Muslims from entering the country.CreditDamon Winter/The New York Times
A Pledge With Appeal
Those who know Mr. Trump say that his attitude toward immigrants long predates his entry into politics.
“He’s always been fearful where other cultures are concerned and always had anxiety about food and safety when he travels,” said Michael D’Antonio, who interviewed him for the biography “The Truth About Trump.” “His objectification and demonization of people who are different has festered for decades.”
Friends say Mr. Trump, a developer turned reality TV star, grew to see immigration as a zero-sum issue: What is good for immigrants is bad for America. In 2014, well before becoming a candidate, he tweeted: “Our government now imports illegal immigrants and deadly diseases. Our leaders are inept.”
But he remained conflicted, viewing himself as benevolent and wanting to be liked by the many immigrants he employed.
Over time, the anti-immigrant tendencies hardened, and two of his early advisers, Roger J. Stone Jr. and Sam Nunberg, stoked that sentiment. But it was Mr. Trump who added an anti-immigrant screed to his Trump Tower campaign announcement in June 2015 in New York City without telling his aides.
“When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity,” Mr. Trump ad-libbed. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems,” he continued. “They’re bringing drugs; they’re bringing crime; they’re rapists.”
During his campaign, he pushed a false story about Muslims celebrating in Jersey City as they watched the towers fall after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in New York. He said illegal immigrants were like “vomit” crossing the border. And he made pledges that he clearly could not fulfill.
“We will begin moving them out, Day 1,” he said at a rally in August 2016, adding, “My first hour in office, those people are gone.”
Democrats and some Republicans recoiled, calling Mr. Trump’s messaging damaging and divisive. But for the candidate, the idea of securing the country against outsiders with a wall had intoxicating appeal, though privately, he acknowledged that it was a rhetorical device to whip up crowds when they became listless.
Senator Tom Cotton, Republican of Arkansas, whom Mr. Trump consults regularly on the matter, said it was not a stretch to attribute Mr. Trump’s victory to issues where Mr. Trump broke with a Republican establishment orthodoxy that had disappointed anti-immigrant conservatives for decades.
“There’s no issue on which he was more unorthodox than on immigration,” Mr. Cotton said.
Stephen Miller
“We have taken a giant steamliner barreling full speed,” the adviser Stephen Miller said of Mr. Trump’s immigration efforts. “Slowed it, stopped it, begun to turn it around and started sailing in the other direction. ”Credit
Mr. Miller and other aides had the task of turning those promises into a policy agenda that would also include an assault against a pro-immigration bureaucracy they viewed with suspicion and disdain. Working in secret, they drafted a half-dozen executive orders. One would crack down on so-called sanctuary cities. Another proposed changing the definition of a criminal alien so that it included people arrested — not just those convicted.
But mindful of his campaign promise to quickly impose “extreme vetting,” Mr. Trump decided his first symbolic action would be an executive order to place a worldwide ban on travel from nations the White House considered compromised by terrorism.
With no policy experts in place, and deeply suspicious of career civil servants they regarded as spies for President Barack Obama, Mr. Miller and a small group of aides started with an Obama-era law that identified seven terror-prone “countries of concern.” And then they skipped practically every step in the standard White House playbook for creating and introducing a major policy.
The National Security Council never convened to consider the travel ban proposal. Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary at the time, did not see it ahead of time. Lawyers and policy experts at the White House, the Justice Department and the Homeland Security Department were not asked to weigh in. There were no talking points for friendly surrogates, no detailed briefings for reporters or lawmakers, no answers to frequently asked questions, such as whether green card holders would be affected.
The announcement of the travel ban on a Friday night, seven days after Mr. Trump’s inauguration, created chaotic scenes at the nation’s largest airports, as hundreds of people were stopped, and set off widespread confusion and loud protests. Lawyers for the government raced to defend the president’s actions against court challenges, while aides struggled to explain the policy to perplexed lawmakers the next night at a black-tie dinner.
White House aides resorted to Google searches and frenzied scans of the United States Code to figure out which countries were affected.
But for the president, the chaos was the first, sharp evidence that he could exert power over the bureaucracy he criticized on the campaign trail.
“It’s working out very nicely,” Mr. Trump told reporters in the Oval Office the next day.
At a hastily called Saturday night meeting in the Situation Room, Mr. Miller told senior government officials that they should tune out the whining.
Sitting at the head of the table, across from Mr. Kelly, Mr. Miller repeated what he told the president: This is what we wanted — to turn immigration enforcement back on.
Mr. Kelly, who shared Mr. Trump’s views about threats from abroad, was nonetheless livid that his employees at homeland security had been called into action with no guidance or preparation. He told angry lawmakers that responsibility for the rollout was “all on me.” Privately, he told the White House, “That’s not going to happen again.”
Demonstrating in January against the detention of travelers and refugees by border officials at Kennedy International Airport. The announcement of a travel ban set off widespread confusion and loud protests.Credit
Forced to Back Down
Amid the turbulent first weeks, Mr. Trump’s attempt to bend the government’s immigration apparatus to his will began to take shape.
The ban’s message of “keep out” helped drive down illegal border crossings as much as 70 percent, even without being formally put into effect.
Immigration officers rounded up 41,318 undocumented immigrants during the president’s first 100 days, nearly a 40 percent increase. The Justice Department began hiring more immigration judges to speed up deportations. Officials threatened to hold back funds for sanctuary cities. The flow of refugees into the United States slowed.
Mr. Trump “has taken the handcuffs off,” said Steven A. Camarota of the Center for Immigration Studies, an advocacy group that favors more limits on immigration.
Mr. Obama had been criticized by immigrant rights groups for excessive deportations, especially in his first term. But Mr. Camarota said that Mr. Trump’s approach was “a distinct change, to look at what is immigration doing to us, rather than what is the benefit for the immigrant.”
The president, however, remained frustrated that the shift was not yielding results.
By early March, judges across the country had blocked his travel ban. Immigrant rights activists were crowing that they had thwarted the new president. Even Mr. Trump’s own lawyers told him he had to give up on defending the ban.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions and lawyers at the White House and Justice Department had decided that waging an uphill legal battle to defend the directive in the Supreme Court would fail. Instead, they wanted to devise a narrower one that could pass legal muster.
The president, though, was furious about what he saw as backing down to politically correct adversaries. He did not want a watered-down version of the travel ban, he yelled at Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, as the issue came to a head on Friday, March 3, in the Oval Office.
It was a familiar moment for Mr. Trump’s advisers. The president did not mind being told “no” in private, and would sometimes relent. But he could not abide a public turnabout, a retreat. At those moments, he often exploded at whoever was nearby.
As Marine One waited on the South Lawn for Mr. Trump to begin his weekend trip to Palm Beach, Fla., Mr. McGahn insisted that administration lawyers had already promised the court that Mr. Trump would issue a new order. There was no alternative, he said.
“This is bullshit,” the president responded.
With nothing resolved, Mr. Trump, furious, left the White House. A senior aide emailed a blunt warning to a colleague waiting aboard Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland: “He’s coming in hot.”
Already mad at Mr. Sessions, who the day before had recused himself in the Russia investigation, Mr. Trump refused to take his calls. Aides told Mr. Sessions he would have to fly down to Mar-a-Lago to plead with the president in person to sign the new order.
Over dinner that night with Mr. Sessions and Mr. McGahn, Mr. Trump relented. When he was back in Washington, he signed the new order. It was an indication that he had begun to understand — or at least, begrudgingly accept — the need to follow a process.
Still, one senior adviser later recalled never having seen a president so angry signing anything.
As ICE arrests have gone up, deportations have gone down. Why? It’s partly because of the complex realities of tough policy in practice.
Soft Spot for ‘Dreamers’
As a candidate, Mr. Trump had repeatedly contradicted himself about the deportations he would pursue, and whether he was opposed to any kind of path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But he also courted conservative voters by describing an Obama-era policy as an illegal amnesty for the immigrants who had been brought to the United States as children.
During the transition, his aides drafted an executive order to end the program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. But the executive order was held back as the new president struggled with conflicted feelings about the young immigrants, known as Dreamers.
“We’re going to take care of those kids,” Mr. Trump had pledged to Senator Richard J. Durbin during a private exchange at his Inauguration Day luncheon.
The comment was a fleeting glimpse of the president’s tendency to seek approval from whomever might be sitting across from him, and the power that personal interactions have in shaping his views.
In 2013, Mr. Trump met with a small group of Dreamers at Trump Tower, hoping to improve his standing with the Hispanic community. José Machado told Mr. Trump about waking up at the age of 15 to find his mother had vanished — deported, he later learned, back to Nicaragua.
“Honestly,” Mr. Machado said of Mr. Trump, “he had no idea.”
Mr. Trump appeared to be touched by the personal stories, and insisted that the Dreamers accompany him to his gift shop for watches, books and neckties to take home as souvenirs. In the elevator on the way down, he quietly nodded and said, “You convinced me.”
Aware that the president was torn about the Dreamers, Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, quietly reached out in March to Mr. Durbin, who had championed legislation called the Dream Act to legalize the immigrants, to test the waters for a possible deal.
After weeks of private meetings on Capitol Hill and telephone conversations with Mr. Durbin and Senator Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican supportive of legalizing the Dreamers, Mr. Kushner invited them to dinner at the six-bedroom estate he shares with his wife, Ivanka Trump.
But Mr. Durbin’s hope of a deal faded when he arrived to the house and saw who one of the guests would be.
“Stephen Miller’s presence made it a much different experience than I expected,” Mr. Durbin said later.
Confronting the ‘Deep State’
Even as the administration was engaged in a court battle over the travel ban, it began to turn its attention to another way of tightening the border — by limiting the number of refugees admitted each year to the United States. And if there was one “deep state” stronghold of Obama holdovers that Mr. Trump and his allies suspected of undermining them on immigration, it was the State Department, which administers the refugee program.
At the department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, there was a sense of foreboding about a president who had once warned that any refugee might be a “Trojan horse” or part of a “terrorist army.”
Mr. Trump had already used the travel ban to cut the number of allowable refugees admitted to the United States in 2017 to 50,000, a fraction of the 110,000 set by Mr. Obama. Now, Mr. Trump would have to decide the level for 2018.
At an April meeting with top officials from the bureau in the West Wing’s Roosevelt Room, Mr. Miller cited statistics from the restrictionist Center for Immigration Studies that indicated that resettling refugees in the United States was far costlier than helping them in their own region.
Mr. Miller was visibly displeased, according to people present, when State Department officials pushed back, citing another study that found refugees to be a net benefit to the economy. He called the contention absurd and said it was exactly the wrong kind of thinking.
But the travel ban had been a lesson for Mr. Trump and his aides on the dangers of dictating a major policy change without involving the people who enforce it. This time, instead of shutting out those officials, they worked to tightly control the process.
In previous years, State Department officials had recommended a refugee level to the president. Now, Mr. Miller told officials the number would be determined by the Department of Homeland Security under a new policy that treated the issue as a security matter, not a diplomatic one.
When he got word that the Office of Refugee Resettlement had drafted a 55-page report showing that refugees were a net positive to the economy, Mr. Miller swiftly intervened, requesting a meeting to discuss it. The study never made it to the White House; it was shelved in favor of a three-page list of all the federal assistance programs that refugees used.
At the United Nations General Assembly in September, Mr. Trump cited the Center for Immigration Studies report, arguing that it was more cost-effective to keep refugees out than to bring them into the United States.
“Uncontrolled migration,” Mr. Trump declared, “is deeply unfair to both the sending and receiving countries.”
Border wall prototypes in San Diego. The disorganization that marked Mr. Trump’s earliest actions on immigration have given way to a more disciplined approach that has yielded concrete results.
More Disciplined Approach
Cecilia Muñoz, who served as Mr. Obama’s chief domestic policy adviser, said she was alarmed by the speed with which Mr. Trump and his team have learned to put their immigration agenda into effect.
“The travel ban was a case of bureaucratic incompetence,” she said. “They made rookie mistakes. But they clearly learned from that experience. For the moment, all of the momentum is in the direction of very ugly, very extreme, very harmful policies.”
By year’s end, the chaos and disorganization that marked Mr. Trump’s earliest actions on immigration had given way to a more disciplined approach that yielded concrete results, steered in large part by Mr. Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general. As secretary of homeland security, he had helped unleash immigration officers who felt constrained under Mr. Obama. They arrested 143,000 people in 2017, a sharp uptick, and deported more than 225,000.
Later, as White House chief of staff, Mr. Kelly quietly persuaded the president to drop his talk of Mexico paying for the wall. But he has advocated on behalf of the president’s restrictionist vision, defying his reputation as a moderator of Mr. Trump’s hard-line instincts.
In September, a third version of the president’s travel ban was issued with little fanfare and new legal justifications. Then, Mr. Trump overruled objections from diplomats, capping refugee admissions at 45,000 for 2018, the lowest since 1986. In November, the president ended a humanitarian program that granted residency to 59,000 Haitians to since a 2010 earthquake ravaged their country.
As the new year approached, officials began considering a plan to separate parents from their children when families are caught entering the country illegally, a move that immigrant groups called draconian.
At times, though, Mr. Trump has shown an openness to a different approach. In private discussions, he returns periodically to the idea of a “comprehensive immigration” compromise, though aides have warned him against using the phrase because it is seen by his core supporters as code for amnesty. During a fall dinner with Democratic leaders, Mr. Trump explored the possibility of a bargain to legalize Dreamers in exchange for border security.
Mr. Trump even told Republicans recently that he wanted to think bigger, envisioning a deal early next year that would include a wall, protection for Dreamers, work permits for their parents, a shift to merit-based immigration with tougher work site enforcement, and ultimately, legal status for some undocumented immigrants.
The idea would prevent Dreamers from sponsoring the parents who brought them illegally for citizenship, limiting what Mr. Trump refers to as “chain migration.”
“He wants to make a deal,” said Mr. Graham, who spoke with Mr. Trump about the issue last week. “He wants to fix the entire system.”
Yet publicly, Mr. Trump has only employed the absolutist language that defined his campaign and has dominated his presidency.
After an Uzbek immigrant was arrested on suspicion of plowing a truck into a bicycle path in Lower Manhattan in October, killing eight people, the president seized on the episode.
Privately, in the Oval Office, the president expressed disbelief about the visa program that had admitted the suspect, confiding to a group of visiting senators that it was yet another piece of evidence that the United States’ immigration policies were “a joke.”
Even after a year of progress toward a country sealed off from foreign threats, the president still viewed the immigration system as plagued by complacency.
“We’re so politically correct,” he complained to reporters in the cabinet room, “that we’re afraid to do anything.”
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L'aventure présidentielle de Ben Carson prend fin mars 2, 2016 Agence France-Presse Washington Le neurochirurgien à la retraite Ben Carson a annoncé mercredi qu'il ne voyait pas d'avenir à sa candidature aux primaires républicaines pour la Maison-Blanche et qu'il ne participerait pas au prochain débat télévisé. «J'ai décidé de ne…
Etats-Unis: Voici comment Donald Trump sera destitué avant la fin de son mandat? janvier 30, 2017 Allan Lichtman, l’un des rares experts à avoir deviné l’élection du milliardaire, a aussi prédit qu’il sera destitué. Explications sur la procédure d’impeachment. Une grande partie des sondages et analyses, repris en masse par les médias, donnaient la candidate démocrate,…
Barack Obama annonce qu'il soutient Hillary Clinton juin 10, 2016 Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON Le président des États-Unis Barack Obama a officiellement annoncé jeudi son soutien à Hillary Clinton dans la course à la Maison-Blanche, affichant sa volonté de rassembler les démocrates pour faire barrage à Donald Trump. «Je suis avec…
Donald Trump en route vers l'investiture républicaine mai 3, 2016 Donald Trump n'a pas encore atteint la majorité de 1237 délégués requise pour décrocher l'investiture de façon automatique, mais la probabilité qu'il y parvienne d'ici aux dernières primaires du 7 juin a fortement augmenté. PHOTO AP Agence France-Presse Washington…
Pas de funérailles nationales pour Jean-Claude Duvalier octobre 9, 2014 L'ex-dictateur haïtien Jean-Claude Duvalier est décédé le 4 octobre à l'âge de 63 ans. PHOTO ELIANA APONTE TOBAR, ARCHIVES THE NEW YORK TIMES Agence France-Presse PORT-AU-PRINCE Il n'y aura pas de funérailles nationales pour l'ex-dictateur haïtien Jean-Claude Duvalier, qui sera…
Jérusalem: les États-Unis condamnés à l'ONU malgré les menaces de Trump décembre 21, 2017 «Les États-Unis se souviendront de cette journée qui les a vus cloués au pilori devant l'Assemblée générale pour le seul fait d'exercer notre droit de pays souverain», a déclaré l'ambassadrice américaine aux Nations unies Nikki Haley avant le vote. PHOTO…
Les Clinton assisteront à l'investiture de Donald Trump janvier 3, 2017 L'ancienne candidate démocrate à la présidentielle, Hillary Clinton, s'est éclipsée de la vie publique depuis que son adversaire, Donald Trump, l'a emporté, en novembre. PHOTO REUTERS Associated Press Washington Bill et Hillary Clinton prévoient assister à la cérémonie d'investiture de…
Trump salue l'Afrique, où ses amis vont pour «devenir riches» septembre 20, 2017 Le président américain a précisé qu'il allait envoyer son «ambassadrice Nikki Haley en Afrique pour discuter des conflits et de leur résolution, et plus important, de la prévention». PHOTO AFP Agence France-Presse New York Le président américain Donald Trump a…
Hillary Clinton, complice des infidélités de Bill, selon Donald Trump mai 8, 2016 Donald Trump PHOTO JIM URQUHART, REUTERS Agence France-Presse Washington Le probable candidat républicain à la Maison-Blanche Donald Trump a adopté un nouvel angle d'attaque controversé contre sa rivale démocrate Hillary Clinton, en accusant l'ex-Première dame d'avoir été «complice» des infidélités…
Donald Trump ressort l'affaire Lewinsky pour discréditer Hillary Clinton janvier 7, 2016 L'ancien président Bill Clinton (photo: jeudi, dans l'Iowa), qui fait actuellement campagne pour sa femme Hillary, n'a pas voulu répondre aux propos de Donald Trump. PHOTO ANDREW HARNIK, AP Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON En 15 secondes d'images, le milliardaire américain Donald…
Haïti-Rép.Dominicaine : Chasse aux Haïtiens à Las Maltas mars 25, 2014 La communauté de Las Maltas, en République Dominicaine est, depuis le 18 mars 2014, le théâtre de vives tensions suite à un incident opposant un migrant haïtien à un citoyen dominicain, a appris le Groupe d'Appui aux rapatriés et…
Les naissances de bébés blancs sont minoritaires aux Etats-Unis mai 17, 2012 Les naissances de bébés blancs sont maintenant minoritaires aux Etats-Unis, selon les derniers chiffres officiels qui devaient être rendus publics jeudi, cités par un journal. Les naissances dans l'ensemble des minorités (y compris les personnes originaires des Antilles et d'Amérique…
Nigeria: l'industrie cinématographique enfin reconnue avril 7, 2014 Van Vicker, l'acteur africain le plus populaire du monde Agence France-Presse Lagos, Nigeria «Nollywood», la florissante industrie cinématographique du Nigeria - en référence au Hollywood américain - est prise en compte pour la première fois dans les nouveaux chiffres…
Flash derniere heure : Le FBI rouvre son enquête sur les courriels d'Hillary Clinton octobre 28, 2016 La candidate démocrate Hillary Clinton s'entretient avec son équipe électorale, dont son assistante Huma Abedin (à gauche), à bord de son avion de campagne, à White Plains, dans l'État de New York, le 28 octobre. PHOTO BRIAN SNYDER, REUTERS…
Le flot de migrants haïtiens ne tarit pas au Québec août 7, 2017 Sous une grande tente, des policiers fédéraux procèdent aux premières vérifications de l'identité des migrants dont le flot ne tarit pas. Agence France-Presse HEMMINGFORD Des dizaines de migrants, majoritairement des Haïtiens craignant d'être expulsés des États-Unis, continuaient à passer illégalement…
George H. W. Bush s'éteint à l'âge de 94 ans décembre 1, 2018 Agence France-Presse 1 er Decembre 2018 -L'ancien président des États-Unis George H. W. Bush, qui dirigea son pays de 1989 à 1993 durant la fin de la Guerre froide et gagna la première guerre du Golfe, est mort vendredi soir…
USA-Presidentielles 2016 : Michael Bloomberg étudie «toutes les options» février 8, 2016 Michael Bloomberg, plus pragmatique qu'idéologue, a été longtemps démocrate, avant de devenir républicain en 2001 pour être candidat à la mairie de New York, puis indépendant en 2007. PHOTO AP Agence France-Presse New York L'ancien maire de New York Michael…
«Etonnez-nous, Monsieur Hollande», par Frantz Duval mai 13, 2015 Francois Hollande et Michel Martelly Alors que François Hollande est en Haïti, la question de la «rançon de l'indépendance» est au cœur de cette visite présidentielle. Nous reproduisons ci-dessous l'éditorial du principal quotidien de l'île, Le Nouvelliste, qui s'en prend «aux vendeurs…
Youri Latortue dénonce l’illégalité de la taxe sur la diaspora août 28, 2017 Photo : Page Twitter de Youri Latortue Loop Haiti - Suite à la mesure prise par le gouvernement Moise-Lafontant d'imposer aux haïtiens vivant en terres étrangères de verser 10,000 gourdes comme impôt forfaitaire annuel, le Président du Sénat, M Youri…
L'auteur des mémoires de Trump prévoit qu'il va démissionner août 18, 2017 L'auteur des mémoires de Donald Trump, The Art of the Deal, ouvrage publié en 1987, pense que le milliardaire va démissionner de la présidence des États-Unis avant la fin de son mandat en 2021, peut-être même avant la fin de cette…
Les Américains craignent un attentat terroriste, selon un sondage décembre 10, 2015 Un climat de peur jamais vu depuis les attentats du 11 septembre s'est emparé des États-Unis, dans la foulée des attentats de Paris et de la tuerie de San Bernardino. Une large majorité d'Américains croit que les États-Unis seront probablement…
Sida: faible taux de transmission de VIH résistant aux antiviraux dans le monde avril 17, 2015 Magic Johnson Agence France-Presse WASHINGTON Le taux de transmission de virus du sida (VIH) avec des mutations les rendant résistants aux antirétroviraux augmente peu dans le monde, selon une recherche américaine publiée mardi. Cette recherche menée sur plus de 50…
L’ex-maire de New York Giuliani dit qu’Obama n’aime pas l’Amérique février 21, 2015 AFP - L’ancien maire républicain de New York Rudy Giuliani a provoqué la consternation des démocrates jeudi en affirmant que Barack Obama n’aimait pas l’Amérique. «Je sais que c’est horrible à dire, mais je ne pense pas que le président…
Walmart plombé par une affaire de corruption au Mexique avril 23, 2012 Le groupe Transparencia Mexicana a demandé au gouvernement du pays, dimanche, de se pencher sur des allégations selon lesquelles les dirigeants de Walmart au Mexique ont versé des millions de dollars en pots-de-vin pour alimenter son expansion rapide dans ce…
Plus d'un Américain sur dix est pauvre septembre 16, 2014 AFP - Le nombre de personnes vivant en dessous du seuil de pauvreté aux Etats-Unis était en 2013 de 45,3 millions, soit un taux de pauvreté à 14,5% en légère baisse sur un an, indique un rapport du recensement américain.…
Un «résistant» de l'administration Trump se confie au New York Times septembre 5, 2018 «Le coeur du problème est l'amoralité du président», avance le contributeur anonyme. Agence France-Presse Washington Le New York Times a publié mercredi la tribune anonyme d'un haut responsable de l'administration Trump qui explique pourquoi et comment il s'efforce, avec d'autres, de lutter…
Trump et Clinton, le duel des favoris pour la Maison-Blanche mars 2, 2016 Agence France-Presse Washington L'homme d'affaires Donald Trump et la démocrate Hillary Clinton se retrouvaient mercredi favoris des primaires pour la Maison-Blanche après un «super mardi» à succès, journée charnière qui présage un duel entre les deux candidats aux personnalités très…
Un nouveau traitement du sida testé avec succes octobre 2, 2017 Ce traitement a été testé sur des singes par des scientifiques français et américains et devrait être essayé sur des humains à partir de 2018. Suite à des recherches effectuées par le groupe pharmaceutique français Sanofi et des Instituts nationaux…
La police se défend après avoir tué un homme à New York août 13, 2012 L'homme, qui tenait un couteau d'environ 30 centimètres, aurait fait un mouvement brusque en direction de la police avant d'être abattu Crédits photo : Lincoln Rocha/AP VIDÉO - Filmé par plusieurs badauds, le meurtre d'un homme par les forces de l'ordre…
Haïti : une quarantaine de disparus dans le naufrage d'un bateau de migrants octobre 16, 2017 Dans le pays miné par une pauvreté extrême, où plus de 60% de la population vit avec moins de deux dollars par jour, les Haïtiens tentent régulièrement de rejoindre illégalement les îles des Bahamas ou de TurKs et Caicos. Agence…
Donald Trump inculpé au pénal par un grand jury de New York mars 30, 2023 AFP - Un grand jury d'un tribunal de New York a voté l'inculpation au pénal de Donald Trump dans une affaire d'achat du silence d'une actrice de films X en 2016, un fait sans précédent pour un ancien président, rapportent…
