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As Midterm Vote Nears, Trump Reprises a Favorite Message: Fear Immigrants
The New York Slimes ^ | 01 NOV 2018 | Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis

Posted on 11/01/2018 6:26:18 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s closing argument is now clear: Build tent cities for migrants. End birthright citizenship. Fear the caravan. Send active-duty troops to the border. Refuse asylum.

Immigration has been the animating issue of the Trump presidency, and now — with the possibility that Republicans could face significant losses in the midterm elections on Tuesday — the president has fully embraced a dark, anti-immigrant message in the hope that stoking fear will motivate voters to reject Democrats.

In a rambling speech on Thursday afternoon that was riddled with falsehoods and vague promises to confront a “crisis” at the border, Mr. Trump used the official backdrop of the White House to step up his efforts to demonize a caravan of Central Americans that has been making its way through Mexico, assail Democrats, and promote a vision of the United States that would be better off with fewer immigrants.

The president said he had ordered troops to respond to any migrants in the caravan who throw rocks as if they were brandishing firearms, saying, “I told them: Consider it a rifle.” He said his government had already begun to construct “massive cities of tents” to imprison legal and illegal immigrants who try to enter the United States.

“This is a defense of our country,” Mr. Trump declared from a lectern in the Roosevelt Room before leaving the White House to attend a campaign rally in Missouri. “We have no choice. We will defend our borders. We will defend our country.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Mexico; News/Current Events
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

To the fags at the New Yawk Slimes. We aren’t fearing anyone. We are just pissed waiting for the shooting to start. It’s time for Americans to start defending their country.


21 posted on 11/01/2018 7:40:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Shoot illegal alien invaders. This is an invasion. The Slimes is an embarrassment to civil society.


22 posted on 11/01/2018 7:44:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Fear illegals.


23 posted on 11/01/2018 7:45:55 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

A few thousand rapes and murders is a small price to pay for DNC votes.


24 posted on 11/01/2018 8:18:56 PM PDT by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NYT UR Fake News, enemy of the people.


25 posted on 11/01/2018 9:36:52 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life or nothing at all)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They always ignore the evidence that the invaders carry much violence and death with them...one of Pookies toons showed a poster that said:

Republican motto: Jobs, Not Mobs

Dem motto: There aren't that many killers in the invading force when one considers the total size of it....

OK - so I paraphrased...but the message is the same.

26 posted on 11/02/2018 3:16:03 AM PDT by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When you get down to it...who are the ones using the word “fear” constantly.

Why it’s the media and especially the New York Slimes.


27 posted on 11/02/2018 3:31:00 AM PDT by Maris Crane
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The local news on the radio has also pushed the “immigrants” line, as if we can’t see that the crackdown is on ILLEGAL immigration.


28 posted on 11/02/2018 3:35:46 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Prayers for our country and President Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They truly can’t help themselves. My eyes roll when I read articles like this. So slanted that it comes across as juvenile, Are there no senior editors to impose at least a smidgen of discipline on the hipster kids who write these things?


29 posted on 11/02/2018 3:46:28 AM PDT by Yardstick
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It’s the crazy minds of the liberal, progressive, socialists.


30 posted on 11/02/2018 4:31:24 AM PDT by beachn4fun (Just because you THINK it, doesn't make it so.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Another proggie, adult-child ‘journalist’ team lies through their teeth for their Master. That the headline eliminated ‘illegal’ (as proggie headlines always do) tells us all about them. ENEMEDIA.


31 posted on 11/02/2018 6:34:00 AM PDT by polymuser (ItÂ’s terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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