A/74/274 newly arrived migrants, and that their “contaminated clothing” risked spreading infection. 17 31. In France, Marine Le Pen’s campaign team called for the “eradication of bacterial immigration”, claiming that migration was causing an “alarming presence of contagious diseases”. 18 Viktor Orban of Hungary noted, in February 2018, that “we do not want our color...to be mixed in with others”.19 Alexander Gauland called for Germans to fight an “invasion of foreigners”. 20 In Poland, Jaroslaw Kaczynski referenced migrants and refugees in theorizing “various parasites, protozoa that are common and are not dangerous in the bodies of these people, may be dangerous here”.21 32. Politicians from the United States, including the current President, Donald Trump, have used language that has reinforced the negative stereotyping of people of African descent. On 14 July 2019, the President, tweeted “Why don’t they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came”. 22 On 11 January 2018, it was reported that he had referred to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries”, while calling for increased immigration from Norway. 23 Six months earlier, he had stated that 15,000 recent immigrants from Haiti “all have AIDS” and that 40,000 Nigerians, once seeing the United States, would never “go back to their huts” in Africa. 24 In March 2017, Congressional Representative Steve King tweeted: “…culture and demographics are our destiny. We can’t restore our civilization with somebody else’s babies”.25 33. In the United States, the political theatre of racist stereotyping often plays on racist tropes relating to the trafficking in enslaved Africans, the history o f lynchings, violence against and exploitation of people of African descent, the perceived lower intellectual capacity of people of African descent and other stereotypes relating to poverty and communities with high concentrations of people of African desc ent. The United States Secretary of Agriculture campaigned against a gubernatorial candidate in Florida, Andrew Gillum, who was of African descent by exclaiming: “this election is so cotton-pickin’ important”. In the same race, Mr. Gillum was referred to as “articulate” and “charismatic” in a televised debate, terms often used to connote __________________ 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 10/22 See Lorenzo Tondo, “Italy orders seizure of migrant rescue ship over ‘HIV-contaminated’ clothes”, The Guardian, 20 November 2018. Available at https://www.theguardian.com/ world/2018/nov/20/italy-orders-seizure-aquarius-migrant-rescue-ship-hiv-clothes. See Paul Ames, “The five European leaders most likely to be Donald Trump ’s soulmate”, PRI, 26 February 2016. Available at https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-26/five-european-leadersmost-likely-be-donald-trump-s-soulmate. See United Nations, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Hungary: opinion editorial by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights , Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein. Available at https://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews .aspx?NewsID=22765&LangID=E. See BBC News, “German election: how right-wing is nationalist AfD?”, 13 October 2017. Available at www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37274201. See Paul Ames, “The five European leaders most likely to be Donald Trump ’s soulmate”, PRI, 26 February 2016. Available at https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-02-26/five-european-leadersmost-likely-be-donald-trump-s-soulmate. See Katie Rogers and Nicholas Fandos, “Trump tells congresswomen to ‘go back’ to the countries they came from”, New York Times, 14 July 2019. See Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Thomas Kaplan, “Trump alarms lawmakers with disparaging words for Haiti and Africa”, New York Times, 11 January 2018. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/us/politics/trump -shithole-countries.html. See Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld David, “Stoking fears, Trump defied bureaucracy to advance immigration agenda”, New York Times, 23 December 2017. Available at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/23/us/politics/trump-immigration.html?module=inline . See Trip Gabriel, “A timeline of Steve King’s racist remarks and divisive actions”, New York Times, 15 January 2019. 19-13272