Posted on 10/22/2018 6:21:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats are struggling to respond to President Trump and his Republican allies, who are casting the caravan of thousands of migrants headed toward the U.S.-Mexico border as a failure of Democrats to help enact immigration policy in the GOP-controlled Congress.
Some Democrats said Trump is vulnerable to a counterattack on his core campaign issue given that his policies failed to reduce the number of unauthorized immigrants. Yet party leaders and Democratic candidates have largely been silent ahead of the midterm elections, refusing to engage with Trump.
The Democratic and Republican strategies reflect the path each party has charted with two weeks till Nov. 6. Republicans are hoping to retain their Senate majority and limit losses in the House by playing on fears of migrants pouring into the country to rally conservatives, a strategy that helped propel Trump to the presidency in 2016.
Democrats, deeply divided on immigration, are trying to maintain a laserlike focus on health care and the GOP threat to protections for people with preexisting medical conditions, envisioning that as the issue that will determine control of Congress.
On Monday, Trump launched a fresh attempt to deflect blame for the more than 5,000 migrants from Honduras who were making their way north through Mexico. The president and his top aides say the rising number of Central Americans attempting to enter the United States without authorization presents a winning campaign issue, by showing Trump is right to call for stronger border control.
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Drop fliers telling the caravan that if they get into the US they will get no food. housing or medical.
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If ‘someone’ is paying them to come North, would it be out of sorts to figure there may be a large bonus (at least promised to be) for people that cross the border.
Remember way back when that WE offered amnesty to ANY one that came ashore from Cuba?
Make the stakes high enough and people have no problem risking death (or ‘worse’) to finish the trek.
Like ‘they’ say, it is an ‘insult’ to call these countries ‘$hiite holes’ UNLESS ‘WE’ are trying to send them back?
....... Most people forget that the President isn’t just spouting off unfounded remarks about where the Mob Caravan has received it’s funding ..... He has access to the most up to date intelligence on the matter ..... and whatever he says is said mostly for strategic purposes to force peoples hands.
The quote caravan is the same crap we see every fucking day
Build the damn wall. Yesterday
Put some doors in it. Ok
Just like the MAN said
It is actually irresponsible to encourage this caravan during the end of Hurricane season. Washed out bridges and flooded rivers. It’s what just happened in Texas because of a tropical storm.
no...
China, Iran, Radical Sunni and Shia Islamics, and of course the anti Brexit European Union players. The drug dealers are the sock puppets of their financial source countries, China for cash and money laundering, and the middle eastern islamic associates who produce the raw materials for their business products. Poppies and opiates.
THAT is who is behind this. Zero doubt... and the globalist bankers are hiding the cash flow to support it all for them... whilst inching interest rates upward a bit, so that our economy stops performing as well as it can...
It is not Mexico, not even the Central american states/nations. THEY are complying with their masters.
WE ARE AT WAR with sock puppets of the international cadre of “stop america firsters”... Starting with China.
Trump is Kryptonite to DemocRATS.
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