Need votes? Make up stories of a migrant invasion at the border. It worked for Europe. [26 Days Ago]

The Washington Post ^ | November 1, 2018 | By Rick Noack

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Only one week ahead of the midterms, President Trump is working hard to turn a few thousand migrants who are on their way to the United States into an “invasion.” More than 5,000 active U.S. service members have been ordered to the border, as the president is spreading unsubstantiated claims that “unknown Middle Easterners” are in the caravan.

There is no evidence for a looming invasion or a terrorism risk. But Trump’s game of making up a migrant invading force isn’t surprising to anyone who has watched populists gain power in Europe in recent years.

In the case of Trump, careful observers may have suspected a long time ago that he was keen on the European populists’ playbook. In 2016, the Trump campaign released a video ad in which a narrator warned of “illegal immigration” at the southern border and demanded the construction of a border wall to stop it.

To make its point, the Trump campaign showed dramatic footage of African migrants scaling the fences around the Spanish enclave of Melilla in Morocco. It neglected to mention that the events in the video took place more than 5,000 miles from the United States' southern border, just like some of the other facts that went unmentioned as populist leaders made up invasions that never occurred.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Need readers. Make up fake news about Trump.

[R_Kangel]

Article is from November 1st

[deport]

Need readers. Make up fake news about Trump.

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Keep in mind this is a 27 day old article. Things change
as the event continues to unfold.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Article is from November 1st

That's about [26 days ago].

[Huskrrrr]

Trump made lemonade out of lemons. The invasion backers were the big losers, much to the Compost’s dismay.

[OpusatFR]

From the Washington DC enclaves of McLean, Alexandria, Loudon Country, Arlington, VA, Montgomery County, MD, and Rockville to your ears.

Ain’t no illegals in these areas (unless they clean, cook and watch the kids, groom the grounds.)

[OpusatFR]

BTW, most people do not have enough money or power or both to reside in these metro areas.

No peasants allowed. Please. Only bien-pensants with the correct pedigrees and deep pockets.

Hillbilly Rhodes Scholars excepted...if democrat.

[Ohioan]

To the deceptive Washington Post, sovereignty, heritage & the stated purposes for our Federal Union, are all alike irrelevant. Or how else can one describe the implications of this argument. They do not care if we preserve the continuity of our values, purpose & heritage.

They are beyond contemptible. They do not respect the generations of struggle that led to the America we seek to preserve.

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Internationalists Betray America

[Crucial]

If there is no migrant invasion Leftist should do the logical thing. They should help build security systems and physical barriers on the borders of their countries so that their opposition isn’t paranoid about it and can’t use it for political purposes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Only one week ahead of the midterms, President Trump is working hard to turn a few thousand migrants who are on their way to the United States into an “invasion.”

Because a few thousand invading illegal aliens isn't an invasion.

[DaiHuy]

Need votes, look in the trunk of your car, truck, boat, basement of your church, local restaurant, where ever. There will be boxes of them, 79% democrat votes guaranteed.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Maybe even a lemon meringue pie — which he can use to pie one of his “favourite” journalists.