How many blunders does President Trump have to make before we accept that, as a nation, we've made a grave error?

In case you missed it, several sources have come forward to claim that Trump made some off-color comments in a meeting earlier this week when discussing a bipartisan immigration deal. The comment came about in the closed-door meeting when immigration protection for Haiti, El Salvador, and some African countries were brought up.

The President was referring to the aforementioned places when he allegedly questioned, "Why are we having all these people from sh*thole countries come here?" He then suggested the United States should welcome more immigrants from places like Norway (a predominantly white nation.)

To suggest that a country's socioeconomic standing or demographics measure its capability to produce people of potential is ridiculous. Many American citizens who have emigrated from the countries Trump has expressed his distaste for become extremely productive, contributive members of society.

Case in point:

Dr. Bennet Omalu, a Nigerian American, was the first to publish on Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players. He struggled to present his research in the face of a powerful NFL, that didn't acknowledge a link between football and the injury until seven years after Omalu's discovery.

Omalu's case is not an isolated one. In the interest of clarity, let's take a look at some statistics:

According to the American Immigration Council, in 2010, 16.1 percent of the African foreign-born population over 25 had a graduate degree, as compared to 10.4 percent in the total U.S. Population. About 35 percent of immigrants from El Salvador are bilingual, as compared to only a 15-20 percent bilingual rate among US natives. Haitian troops fought in the revolutionary war. We see their influence in the rich Creole culture of New Orleans, and it can be argued that they have given us more than we have ever attempted to give them.

These are only a few examples.

The racially-charged, elitist nature that Trump's comments repeatedly possess all allude to the fact that he doesn't understand, or care about, the ideals that this country was founded on. He is so detached from the average American experience that he fails to see how well immigrants regularly assimilate to and improve our nation.

As U.S. Representative Cedric Richmond (D-LA) stated, "Making America Great Again" is becoming increasingly synonymous with "Making America White Again." In the interest of fair, humane, and authentically-American immigration policy, we as a nation need to pay attention to who we elect; before the greatest country in the world becomes the biggest sh*thole of all.