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‘This is an invasion, our military is waiting for you,’ Trump warns ‘migrant caravan’
Published time: 29 Oct, 2018 14:54 Edited time: 30 Oct, 2018 07:52
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As a thousands-strong ‘caravan’ of Central American migrants makes its way to the US border, President Trump warned the migrants to turn back, and promised them “our military is waiting for you” at the border.
“Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border,” Trump tweeted on Monday, before addressing the migrants directly: “Please go back, you will not be admitted into the United States unless you go through the legal process. This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!”

Trump’s tweet comes one day after Defense Secretary James Mattis announced that the military has already begun moving equipment, including concrete barriers, to positions along the US’ 2,000 mile border with Mexico.
Some 5,200 soldiers will be deployed to the border by the end of the week, officials from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Department of Defense confirmed at a joint press conference on Monday. This will “harden” the border, reinforcing the 2,000-strong National Guard contingent already deployed to provide support to the CBP.
The troops will provide logistics support to the border guards as well as construct additional fences and anti-vehicle barriers, securing key points of the border, Air Force General Terrence J. O'Shaughnessy said. All the troops deployed are equipped with their “normally assigned weapons,” he added.

MIgrants wait in line for food donations in San Pedro Tapanatepec, Mexico © Reuters / Ueslei Marcelino
Trump has promised to take harsh action against the approaching caravan several times over the last few weeks. The President first threatened to cut off foreign aid to Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador if they failed to stop migrants leaving for the US. Trump then warned the migrants to turn around in a similar tweet last Thursday, again asking them to apply for citizenship legally “like millions of others are doing.”
The caravan’s journey began in poverty-stricken Honduras almost three weeks ago. On its journey north, the caravan swelled in numbers to around 7,000. Many of the migrants have split off from the main group, and some have turned back, leaving around 4,000 still trudging towards the US.
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Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto offered some of these migrants a chance at immigrating to Mexico on Friday, an offer that was rejected by the bulk of the group. “Our goal is not to remain in Mexico,” one Honduran migrant told AP. “Our goal is to make it to the US. We want passage, that’s all.”
Upon reaching the border, the migrants will most likely not be met with heavily armed US troops. The Posse Comitatus Act, a federal law dating back to the 1870s, forbids the military from engaging in law enforcement on US soil, unless authorized by Congress. The troops will therefore likely provide reconnaissance, logistics, and assistance to Customs and Border Patrol agents.
In the runup to next week’s midterm elections, Trump has fought to keep the caravan’s progress in the spotlight. The president has used that spotlight to bash Democrats for failing to support his tough immigration proposals, and has called the caravan a “great midterm issue for Republicans.”
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5k armed troops, helicopters & drones: Pentagon braces for ‘migrant invasion’
Published time: 30 Oct, 2018 00:53 Edited time: 30 Oct, 2018 07:57
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The White House is not joking around in its efforts to “deter” thousands of Central American migrants from entering the United States, announcing the deployment of 5,200 troops and dozens of “air assets” to the US-Mexico border.
Two caravans of migrants, currently making their way through Mexico towards the US, will be outmatched once they reach the border, where additional 5,200 troops deployed under Operation Faithful Patriot will be awaiting their arrival at some 26 crossing points in Texas, Arizona and California.
The regular troops, which are being deployed “with weapons,” will provide logistical and reconnaissance support to some 2,092 National Guard personnel already deployed since April along the Southwestern frontier.
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“We know border security is national security,” General Terrence O'Shaughnessy, a commander with the US Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), announced at a news conference on Monday, noting that the main objective of the US forces is to “harden the points of entry.”
To do so, US troops will build additional border barriers using razor wire and will use “over two dozen CBP air assets,” four Blackhawk helicopters and even drones to track potential illegal entries, Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters. Furthermore, US troops will use “multiple fixed wings assets” to deploy troops to stop migrants where needed.
“We are bringing three helicopter companies in. They are enhanced with optics and sensors that will allow them to operate at night and provide assistance to bring our personnel exactly where they need to be regardless of the conditions,” Gen. O'Shaughnessy explained.

“The helicopters will ensure the agents can arrive in the most austere locations and fast-rope down and conduct… law enforcement activities.”​

US Custom and Border Protection agents take part in a drill on Mexico - US border © Reuters / Jose Luis Gonzalez
McAleenan noted that two caravans of migrants, including many families and unaccompanied minors, are currently making their way toward the United States. About 3,500 are being tracked in southern Mexico near the border between the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca. Another group of roughly 3,000 is being formed at the Mexican-Guatemalan border.

US Custom and Border Protection agents take part in a drill on Mexico - US border © Reuters / Jose Luis Gonzalez
“We are already facing a border security and humanitarian crisis at our Southern border,” McAleenan said. “Our message to the organizers and participants of this caravan is simple ... we will not allow a large group to enter the United States in an unsafe and unlawful manner.”

Immigration and border security remain a major issue in the upcoming midterm election for President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly railed against the caravan. In a Monday tweet, the US commander in chief called the migrant convoys “an invasion,” stressing that US troops are awaiting their arrival.

The US response to secure its southern border roughly matches the resources Washington has allocated to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) in the Middle East. Currently, about 5,000 US personnel are based in Iraq and another 2,000 in Syria.
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Most electrifying & poisonous midterms may put Trump's career on the line – Ken Livingstone

Ken Livingstone is an English politician, he served as the Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008. He is also a former MP and a former member of the Labour Party.

Published time: 29 Oct, 2018 17:15
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We are just a week away from what may be the most significant US mid-term election in living memory. Normally, America's midterms attract little attention, with voter turnout significantly less than during presidential elections.
The pattern since the end of the Second World War has been that the president's party invariably loses some seats in Congress at every midterm election and sometimes sees his opponents winning a majority.
Both the Republicans and Democrats are putting more energy into these midterm elections than any I have ever seen before. Donald Trump has tried to ramp up his support by claiming there would be violence from the left if Democrats won control of Congress. Speaking to a private meeting with leading American evangelical Christians in the White House, Trump said that the Democrats would overturn everything that his administration has done, and they would do it quickly and violently. Evangelical Christian voters have been a decisive factor in Trump's winning the White House as they galvanised their congregations to get out and vote for Trump.
Trump's fear is that if the Democrats take control of Congress, they will be able to investigate the scandals around his administration and, even more worryingly for Trump, they could begin the process of impeachment which could lead to his removal from the White House.
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Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is seeking re-election, has urged her colleagues to invoke the 25th Amendment and oust Trump from the White House. Not surprisingly, Trump has responded by targeting Warren because she is also the most likely contender for the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2020. She told her constituents in Massachusetts that she will "take a hard look at running for president" once the midterm elections are over. Warren has a strong reputation for being on the left of the Democratic Party.
Trump has denounced Warren as 'Pocahontas', who was the daughter of a Native American chieftain, and offered to donate a million dollars to a charity of Warren's choice if a DNA test confirmed her claims that one of her ancestors was a Native American. Warren has always admitted that her great-great-great-grandmother was partially Native American.
It is not only Warren who is being disparaged by the Republicans. In California's 50th district, the Democrat candidate, Ammar Campa-Najjar, is challenging Republican incumbent Duncan Hunter. Republican-funded adverts have focused on the fact that Campa-Najjar's mother is a Mexican American and his dad a Palestinian. The adverts describe him as a "Palestinian, Mexican, millennial Democrat who is working to infiltrate Congress and is a security risk." The advert goes on to accuse him of having the support of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a bit odd given that he is a Christian. But pandering to Islamophobia is a vote winner for the right. Even more bizarrely, the advert talks of Campa-Najjar's grandfather, who was a member of Black September, a group that murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. But his grandfather was killed by Israeli forces 16 years before Campa-Najjar was born.
Racism is also a key part of the campaign against the Democratic candidate in New York's 19th district. The voters in that seat are overwhelmingly white but the Democratic candidate, Antonio Delgado, is black and running against the white incumbent. Having been a hip-hop artist in the distance past, the Republicans have poured over everything Delgado has produced to denounce him. The adverts accuse him of "lacing his raps with extremist attacks on American values." The adverts also denounce him for pointing out that many more Iraqis lost their lives during the American invasion than the number of Americans killed in the 9/11 attacks.
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Although Donald Trump did not win as many votes as Hillary Clinton in 2016, he transformed America's voting traditions by winning states that had been Democrat for over half a century. These were traditional, working-class states which had seen their manufacturing jobs wiped out and he tapped into that anger, pointing out that Democratic presidents like Obama had done nothing to rebuild the opportunity of good working-class jobs.
Typically, the state of Wisconsin had voted Democrat for 32 years until Trump won there. Now, the incumbent Democratic senator, Tammy Baldwin, is facing a strong challenge from the Republican candidate, and the governor's election is even tighter, with Republican candidate Scott Walker seeming to be neck-and-neck with his Democrat counterpart.
But Trump's election also changed the pattern in traditional Republican states. No Democrat has won a state-wide race in Texas for 24 years. But the Republican senator, Ted Cruz, is facing the real prospect of losing to his Democratic opponent, Beto O'Rourke, who is a charismatic young man, constantly referred to as being similar to Robert Kennedy.
As a leading Republican, Cruz was opposed to Trump becoming their party's candidate for president, calling him "utterly amoral, a sniveling coward and a pathological liar." But he went on to endorse him for the presidency once Trump won the Republican nomination. Trump responded with the ridiculous claim that Cruz's father had been involved in the assassination of President Kennedy. Ironically, Trump is now campaigning for Cruz's re-election.
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Only one president in the last 150 years has faced a serious impeachment challenge, and that of course was President Nixon when it was revealed his campaign team had illegally bugged the Democratic Party's headquarters and would use their data to ensure Nixon's re-election in 1972. Realising he had no chance of defeating the impeachment, Nixon resigned. More recently, Bill Clinton faced an impeachment charge over his sexual activities, but it didn't come anywhere close to him losing office.
But there are so many Republicans who have severe doubts about Trump that if the Democrats can win both the House of Representatives and the Senate, Trump's career will be on the line. This undoubtedly is the reason why these have become the most electrifying and poisonous midterm elections of my lifetime. Trump's two years in office have seen devastating and damaging policies such as walking away from the Paris Climate Change Agreement and splitting from his European colleagues over the issue of Iran, even though all the evidence shows Iran is not pursuing nuclear weapons. Trump is ramping up sanctions against Iran, causing great pain to the poorest Iranians.
Tragically, Trump has taken another devastating decision which, like his climate change policy, could threaten all life on our planet. This is his decision to pull out of the treaty Reagan negotiated with the Russians over nuclear weapons. Signed in 1987, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty led to the end of the Cold War and guaranteed the security of Europe as almost three thousand nuclear missiles were removed and destroyed. All European leaders have roundly opposed Trump's decision to withdraw from the INF. French President Emmanuel Macron phoned Trump on October 21 to raise the issue and underlined the importance of continuing with this treaty.
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Trump has also been criticised by many of America's nuclear experts who warn that the big winner could be Russia, as it would now be able to start the development of new ground launch nuclear missiles. So we now face another global arms race every bit as risky as during the Cold War. Russia has already pointed out that America is spending billions upgrading existing nuclear weapon systems. All this could mean that within a few years, Trump's nuclear missiles would be returning to Europe and making us a target.
Once again, Trump's decision has alienated leading Republicans, such as Senator Rand Paul, who told Fox News it would be a "big, big mistake to flippantly get out of this historic agreement."
Although a recent YouGov poll showed only 42 percent of Americans approve of the way Trump is handling his job, with 49 percent strongly disapproving, Trump's populist policies have won much support from traditional working-class Democrat voters, whilst alienating many traditional Republican voters. It's impossible to predict what is going to happen next week, but I suspect it will be the highest turnout at a midterm election in decades.
If the Democrats fail to take back control of Congress, they need to think seriously about the chances of defeating Trump in 2020, and they only need to look over the border to see what has happened in Mexico, where in July this year, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was elected president because he is a firm socialist who has been compared to America's Bernie Sanders and Britain's Jeremy Corbyn. This is the first time a socialist has been elected in the recent history of Mexico and if the Democrats want to win in 2020, they should be looking at good lefties.
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