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