BORDER/IMMIGRATION/MEXICO/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “With the bullhorn of a nationally televised address and the prestige of the White House around him, President Trump delivered a dark, if familiar, message to the American people on Tuesday [1-8-19] night: The United States needs a border wall to stanch the flow of drugs and criminals, and it has no more room for migrants. In Mexico — the supposed origin and pipeline of these menaces — leaders and citizens reacted with a weary shrug. In the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where thousands of migrants have gathered seeking entry to the United States, most of the televisions in a downtown restaurant showed soccer matches and basketball games. Mr. Trump’s voice, nearly drowned out by music, emerged faintly from a screen in the back. Almost no one seemed to care, or even listen to what the American president had to say.”
–Paulina Villegas and Elisabeth Malkin, “Drum Rolls for Trump’s Speech? More Like Eye Rolls in Mexico,” The New York Times online, January 8, 2019