BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “A few hundred self-avowed nationalists waving flags at a demonstration. A public official donning the signature red hat with white embroidered letters. An activist going on Fox News to warn of an ‘invasion.’ This isn’t Trump country. It’s Tijuana, Mexico, where more than 6,000 asylum-seekers who have been traveling in a caravan from Central America for over a month are arriving as they prepare to formally request asylum at the border. Tensions have been running high in the border town of about one million across from San Diego, Calif., since the arrival of the migrants, most of whom are fleeing broken governments rife with corruption and violence. Anti-immigrant activists in Tijuana have hijacked the rhetoric of President Donald Trump to agitate against the caravan members, who are staying in temporary refugee shelters set up by local authorities. Trump for weeks cast the slow-moving caravan in the run-up to the midterms as a national security threat, warning without evidence that criminals and potential terrorists were in the mix. Two weeks after the midterms, the rhetoric seems to have stuck with a posse of tijuanenses who want the asylum-seekers out.”
–Jesus Rodriguez, “Anti-immigrant activists in Tijuana hijack Trump’s rhetoric,” Politico, November 20, 2018 3:31 pm