Trump may close border with Mexico entirely (to all immigrants) before election to 'stoke' GOP base:

[applegrove]

NYTIMES

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/trump-may-close-border-mexico-entirely-election-stoke-gop-base-nyt-reporter/?utm_source=push_notifications

"SNIP....

President Donald Trump is considering sealing the southern border with Mexico (to all immigrants), The New York Times reported Thursday evening.

“The effort would be the starkest indication yet of Mr. Trump’s election-season push to play to his anti-immigrant base as his party fights to keep control of Congress,” The Times explained.


Earlier in the day, Trump lashed out at a caravan of asylumn seekers.

“To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally,” Trump tweeted. “Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!”



....SNIP"

[kimbutgar]

1. Close it. Hurt tourism and commerce it will blow back to his administration.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Once again, Raw Story's headline is inaccurate.

Trump is proposing closing the border to all immigrants, not closing it entirely to everybody. It's bad enough that he's wanting to cut off the immigrants, but Raw Story is once again trolling for clicks with an inaccurate headline. Here's what's really happening, from the New York Times, the original source:

WASHINGTON — President Trump is considering taking executive action to bar migrants, including asylum seekers, from entering the country at the southern border, according to people familiar with the plan. The effort would be the starkest indication yet of Mr. Trump’s election-season push to play to his anti-immigrant base as his party fights to keep control of Congress.

The proposal amounts to a sweeping use of presidential power to fortify the border and impose the kind of aggressive immigration restrictions and enforcement measures that Mr. Trump has made his signature pursuit.

It would also be the most drastic in a series of steps that Mr. Trump has taken or threatened to take in recent days — including preparations on Thursday to send as many as 1,000 active-duty Army troops to help secure the southern border — as he works to stoke fears of what he has called an “onslaught” of immigrants only days before the midterm elections.

The president has capitalized this month on a group of thousands of Central American migrants trekking north through Mexico, many of them women and children believed to be seeking refuge from violence and economic hardship, to press his case that the United States is under siege from dangerous foreigners and must take harsh measures to hold them off. He said without evidence this week that criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners” were “mixed in” among the people in the migrant caravan, and has blamed its formation on Democrats, falsely charging that they support allowing immigrants to stream, unchecked, into the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/politics/trump-army-border-mexico.html?emc=edit_na_20181025&nl=breaking-news&nlid=65264959ing-news&ref=cta

[msongs]

8. rawstory is garbaage IMO nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. That it is.

[MagickMuffin]

22. ++++111111111

Can't understand the reposting their rehashing of stories on DU.

Do they even have reporters?

or

Do they just steal from other reporters who do the work for them???

[at140]

10. When I applied for the green card (permanent resident visa)

I had to give my finger prints and photo taken by immigration,
and fill out all sorts of background forms. And I had to be sponsored
by a business/employer.

After a few crime free years, I became eligible to apply for US citizenship.
I had to pass a citizenship test testing knowledge of the US Constitution
and a face interview in English. And require 2 US citizens to vouch in person
for my character.

I wonder what process the migrants will be subjected to by immigration.

[gopiscrap]

14. exactly same here

[underpants]

3. He going to close the ENTIRE border? Before or after the new tax cuts?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. No. Raw Story posted an inaccurate headline.

The proposal is to close it to all immigration, not all travel across the border.

[DonCoquixote]

5. the problem is

in order to have a shotof doing half of what he promises, he WOULD need to close the border

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Well, that could be true.

I just hate it when Raw Story goes all clickbaity.

[applegrove]

11. Should i delete?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. No, maybe just cite to the NYT article. It's bad enough that Trump wants

to close the border to all immigrants. It's an important story; it's just that RS tends to spin things more than they need to be spun.

[applegrove]

15. My link to NY Times does not work. My monthly charge didn't go through. I

can't put their link up. But I added "to all immigrants".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

16. Thanks! I know sometimes RS is cited only because the original is behind a firewall.

[klook]

7. 5 million cans of foam sealant, reinforced with iron rebar,

are to be deployed by Navy Seals (heh). The resulting foam wall will create a beautiful barrier the color of untanned Caucasian skin across the entire southern border.

In an act of pure patriotism, Home Depot is donating the sealant.

[John Fante]

13. Good idea, Gump. Remind everyone how much of a bigoted

of trash you see just before the election. We need more independents on our side.

[DBoon]

17. Nixon had his "operation intercept"

For all practical purposes, he closed the border to stop marijuana smuggling.

Didn't work.

Fyi- I'm recalling this from decades old memory, but I remember it was widely ridiculed.

[lpbk2713]

18. Trump makes me sick.

He oozes hate and bigotry.

[Grasswire2]

19. Two thousand miles.

Can't be done, according to those paid to know these things.

[roamer65]

20. Yeah good luck closing the border.

[TeamPooka]

21. I think it will only stoke Latino voters to the polls.