Sakamoto: Bolsonaro insults his people by saying that 'immigrants don't have good intentions'

247 - The journalist Leonardo Sakamoto, in his column On UOL, it states that "it would have been far less embarrassing to see the Brazilian president wearing a hat with Mickey Mouse ears at a summit meeting between Brazil and the United States than to see him defend the expansion of the wall separating the US from Mexico and Latin America, in an interview with Fox News, this Tuesday (19). And on top of that, insult the portion of migrant workers who try to enter the country irregularly, like hundreds of Brazilians."

"Unfortunately, Bolsonaro didn't stop there. He also said that 'the vast majority of potential immigrants don't have good intentions, nor do they want what's best for or to do good for the American people.' Considering that many Brazilians are among those migrating to the US and, moreover, that Brazil was formed by migrations of people from various parts of the world, the President of the Republic managed to insult his own people on foreign television," reports the journalist. 

"Saying that 'the vast majority of potential immigrants do not have good intentions' is practically a reinforcement of the statements made by his son, Eduardo, this Sunday. 'Brazilians who come here [to the United States] legally are welcome. Brazilians illegally outside the country are Brazil's problem, it's our shame,' he stated."