BORDER/TEXAS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “When a president comes to town there are two realities, the one the White House hopes to create and the one that actually exists. President Trump arrived in this city on the Mexican border on Thursday [1-10-19] to dramatize his desire for a border wall, a hardened position that has caused the partial shutdown of the federal government. He surrounded himself with border agents, victims of horrible crimes, a display of methamphetamine and heroin, an AK-47 and an AR-15 rifle, and a trash bag stuffed with $362,062 in cash that had been confiscated by law enforcement officials. In his view, it all added up to a single word, ‘crisis,’ with a lone solution, building a wall — a point he emphasized in a discussion with the crime victims, law enforcement officers and McAllen residents.”
–Michael Tackett and Mitchell Ferman, “In Texas Visit, Trump Presses His Argument That There’s a Border ‘Crisis’,” The New York Times online, January 10, 2019