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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump seizes on immigrant 'caravan' for midterm push
Trump is stepping up attacks on some of his favorite targets immigrants, Mexico and Democrats amid reports that a caravan of migrants is headed to the U.S. border.
With the midterms less than three weeks away, the president is demonizing the band of approximately 4,000 Central Americans as a direct threat to public safety and U.S. national security, amplifying a law-and-order message that helped propel him to the White House.
I am watching the Democrat Party led (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S., Trump tweeted on Thursday.
The message appears timed both to energize the Republican base ahead of the Nov. 6 elections and shift the political dialogue away from a series of controversies dogging the White House heading into Election Day, not least Trumps defense of Saudi Arabia amid growing evidence the kingdoms leaders are behind the disappearance, and apparent murder, of a Saudi columnist for the Washington Post.
https://thehill.com/latino/412148-trump-amps-up-immigration-rhetoric-for-midterms?userid=229233
Because nothing scares Republicans as much as brown people.
underpants
(182,925 posts)I heard this on talk radio today. Mentioned several times that "this is organized" "whoever organized it..." etc. expect this to be another wild rightwing talking point.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)dalton99a
(81,635 posts)underpants
(182,925 posts)unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)to find safety as proof that we need to use our position of privilege to offer help to those less fortunate.
I'm not sure what soulless people see, but it certainly makes it easy to identify who is deplorable.
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Instead we rip families apart, lock them up, and then deport people who've been here for decades and contributed to their communities.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)doc03
(35,386 posts)offer them money or promise them they would be permitted to enter the USA? I can see the Republicans actually
manufacturing the crisis myself.