BORDER/ELECTION/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s closing argument is now clear: Build tent cities for migrants. End birthright citizenship. Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuse asylum. Immigration has been the animating issue of the Trump presidency, and now — with the possibility that Republicans could face significant losses in the midterm elections on Tuesday [11-6-18] — the president has fully embraced a dark, anti-immigrant message in the hope that stoking fear will motivate voters to reject Democrats. In a rambling speech on Thursday afternoon that was riddled with falsehoods and vague promises to confront a ‘crisis’ at the border, Mr. Trump used the official backdrop of the White House to step up his efforts to demonize a caravan of Central Americans that has been making its way through Mexico, assail Democrats, and promote a vision of a United States that would be better off with fewer immigrants.”
–Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, “As Midterm Vote Nears, Trump Reprises a Favorite Message: Fear Immigrants,” The New York Times online, November 1, 2018