BORDER/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump on Tuesday [8-22-17] will meet with Border Patrol officials in Arizona before attending a campaign-style rally, as he seeks to move past one of the most difficult stretches of his controversy-roiled presidency.
Mr. Trump will survey border equipment in Yuma and meet with members of the military before heading to his rally in Phoenix. He may visit the border as well, although administration officials on a background call with reporters declined to say that would definitely happen.
The trip, planned several weeks ago, is an opportunity for the president to claim promises kept for a political base that applauded his hard line on immigration during the campaign.
But the trip is also potentially fraught — Mr. Trump dangled the possibility to Fox News a week ago that he would pardon Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who became an avatar for cracking down on undocumented immigration thanks to his round-‘em-up raids.
Last month, a judge ruled that Mr. Arpaio flouted a court order telling him to back down from detaining people his office suspected of being undocumented immigrants. He was found guilty of criminal contempt of court.”
-Maggie Haberman, “Trump Will Meet Border Patrol Officials Before Rally in Arizona,” The New York Times online, Aug. 22, 2017