Donald Trump Disappoints Kenyans with This Announcement

Kenyans living in the United States have suffered the first major setback since the election of President-elect Donald Trump after the Republican politician picked a troublemaker as his Attorney General.

Trump picked a United States Senator Jeff Sessions to become his Attorney General despite the fact that he has made clear his contempt for Kenyans.

Sessions, a conservative Republican, has in the past said that Kenyans should not be allowed to serve in the army since they were very likely to become spies for the enemy.

“I just think in terms of who’s going to be most likely to be a spy: somebody from Cullman, Alabama, or somebody from Kenya?” Sessions wondered in a television interview in 2014.

The Alabama Senator had also criticised a Kenyan, Edwin Kigathi Gitau, who had been arrested in Alabama on charges of attempting to extort 50,000 US dollars (Sh5 Million) from the president of a local bank.

Sessions had used the unproven allegations against Gitau, who had served in the US army, to make his case that Kenyan immigrants should be deported.

Gitau was later acquitted of all the charges in 2015.

Sessions has also doubted the educational qualifications of Kenyan immigrants adding that it is impossible to establish how such immigrants performed in school.

“I’m wondering: could you get good test scores from his high school? Could you get a good grade point average from Kenya or wherever?” he scornfully stated.

The appointment of an Attorney General with a clear contempt for immigrants has confirmed fears that Trump could be serious about implementing some of the hard immigration policies he promised during his campaigns.

This would affect about 30,000 Kenyans who are reported to be living as undocumented immigrants.

The Kenyan government has already warned such Kenyans to prepare for their return to Kenya adding that it would not defend them from the Trump policies.

The nomination of Sessions comes a few days after President Uhuru Kenyatta joked that he had contemplated calling ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate the violence that resulted after Trump's win. 

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