IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump says he plans to sign an order next week that could lead to the large-scale detention of migrants crossing the southern border and bar anyone caught crossing illegally from claiming asylum. The two legally dubious proposals mark his latest election-season barrage against illegal immigration. Trump also says he has told the U.S. military mobilizing at the southwest border that if U.S. troops face rock-throwing migrants, they should react as though the rocks were ‘rifles.’ Trump’s comments came in a rambling, campaign-style speech at the White House Thursday [11-1-18]. He offered few details on how exactly he planned to overhaul an asylum system he claimed was plagued by ‘endemic abuse’ that he said ‘makes a mockery of our immigration system.'”
–The Associated Press, “The Latest: Trump Offers More Proposals on Immigration,” The New York Times online, November 1, 2018