Trump preparing to deliver major immigration speech just days before midterms

Washington Post ^ | Oct 27, 2018 | Nick Miroff

[11th_VA]

President Trump is preparing to announce a sweeping border crackdown in a speech Tuesday, a week before the midterm elections, in which he is expected to invoke emergency powers to stop migrants from entering the United States and depict them as a grave national security threat, administration officials said Friday.

Trump is considering steps that would bar migrants from crossing the border and deny them a chance to apply for asylum in the United States, measures that legal scholars and immigrant rights groups say would contravene U.S. laws and international treaties, likely triggering challenges in federal court.

The president, undeterred, has been buoyed by rising approval ratings in recent weeks and eager to cudgel his Democratic rivals on border issues, depicting the migrant caravan moving through Mexico as a menace to U.S. security.

Administration officials with knowledge of the speech preparations said the exact measures Trump will announce remain under discussion, as attorneys from the Department of Homeland Security, Justice Department and White House attempt to craft policies that put the administration on the least-vulnerable legal footing.

[11th_VA]

Yes !!!

[mewzilla]

Bet he makes public intel on the invasion...er, caravan.

[alstewartfan]

You stole my only comment! YEEEESSSSSS!!!!!

[EdnaMode]

That is fantastic news. :D

[eyeamok]

measures that legal scholars and immigrant rights groups say would contravene U.S. laws and international treaties, likely triggering challenges in federal court.

You talk about stuck on stupid? The USSC just gave Trump the green light to do as he wishes, "...admission and exclusion of foreign nationals is a “fundamental sovereign attribute exercised by the Government’s political departments largely immune from judicial control..." http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3700226/posts

[dowcaet]

Proving once again we all made the right choice in 2016.

[dragnet2]

You got it. He’s going to reveal some intel that should make most recoil.

[tet68]

The Caravan of NOPE!

[llevrok]

Too late!

There is so much early and mail-in voting these days that the time to influence the vote was a week or more ago.

[smvoice]

HELL NOPE!!

[mewzilla]

Here’s hoping for some dandy drone footage, fascinating financial footprints, and interesting intercepts of various communications.

I love a good show and tell!

[Sequoyah101]

Or DOPE.

[Jeff Chandler]

You talk about stuck on stupid? The USSC just gave Trump the green light to do as he wishes

Irrelevant. A 'rat judge will ignore the SCOTUS ruling and put a halt to ANYTHING President Trump does to stop the caravan. By the time it works its way back up to SCOTUS, the illegals will have scattered to the wind as the 'rat media pounds Trump for being mean to children.

It's like a broken record.

[right way right]

Forcing dems to defend an invasion is good strategy, hope it’s strong and effective too.

Voters are really going to be ticked when some judge tries to block his EO.

[Da Coyote]

“Here’s hoping for some dandy drone footage, fascinating financial footprints, and interesting intercepts of various communications.
I love a good show and tell!”

I strongly suspect that we indeed have such info.
I also strongly feel that our “people’s” CIA, NSA, et al will suppress it.
Because liberal.

[mewzilla]

Trump may not need to use ours. :-)

[Ohioan]

Most people still vote on election day. Election eve addresses can be very, very effective. Hope that the President has lined up some time for Monday the fifth, also!

Landslide time--if at all possible!

[mewzilla]

I’ll bet there are some humongous bricks being excreted as we type....

Bwah hah hah hah hah....

[Proud White Trump Supporter]

I keep getting a Washington Post pop-up ad wanting me to pay a dollar to read the article.

[Cowboy Bob]

legal scholars and immigrant rights groups say would contravene U.S. laws and international treaties, likely triggering challenges in federal court.

Gee. I wonder which side the Supreme Court will take?