Earlier in the week, the United States announced it was rescinding Temporary Protected Status for about 200,000 Salvadorans living in the United States. “I am shocked by President Trump’s comments on Haiti and Africa,” President Macky Sall of Senegal wrote on Twitter. In June, he was reported to have said that Nigerians in the United States would never “go back to their huts” in Africa. Still others said that Mr. Trump may have had a point, citing the endemic corruption, public health challenges and poverty in many African nations. Babacar Faye, a tailor in Dakar, tuned his radio to another station Friday morning when discussion of Mr. Trump’s comments was broadcast.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2018 17:15 UTC