Thursday President Trump held what was billed as an immigration policy announcement, it turned out to be a campaign speech.
The President has already tweeted out a video of his “announcement” @ 4:54 p.m.
Illegal immigration affects the lives of all Americans. Illegal Immigration hurts American workers, burdens American taxpayers, undermines public safety, and places enormous strain on local schools, hospitals and communities…https://t.co/eN1IqPNBJY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 1, 2018
The take-away’s:
President Trump said that some time next week he will issue an EO detailing immigration policy.
President Donald Trump says he will issue an executive order "some time next week" and says “it will be quite comprehensive” pic.twitter.com/N6Lu3ayDXj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) November 1, 2018
President Trump twice during the event stated that the military will be ordered to treat “rocks” as “rifles” but he adds he hopes the military will not have to use “fire power.”
Pres. Trump on using fire power at border: "I hope not. I hope there won't be that. But I will tell you this, anybody throwing stones, rocks like they did to Mexico…we will consider that a firearm. Because there's not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock." pic.twitter.com/egdpKRZxrt
— CSPAN (@cspan) November 1, 2018
More context: @realDonaldTrump said that he has told the military to respond to any rock throwing by members of the migrant caravan as if it was an armed attack. "They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fightsback. I told them to consider it a rifle."
— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) November 1, 2018
Some pundit reactions toward President Trump’s White House campaign speech.
"We went from kids in cages to tent cities that will be patrolled by the US Military and if you're say a 14-year-old boy that throws a rock at them, you might get shot. That's the policy change that I heard" – @amandacarpenter on Trump's immigration speech https://t.co/VTqIT2ZI7V pic.twitter.com/5Zgs8RJI6W
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) November 1, 2018
At one point President Trump stated that only about 3 percent of those awaiting immigration or asylum hearings actually appears in court.
So @jaketapper points out that the President, who said only 3% of asylum seekers show up court dates, was wrong.
Nope. It’s 76%, and was up to 99% under a new pilot program President Trump ended.
So just a completely entirely false misleading stat off by 10x.
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 1, 2018
On Wednesday ahead of his Florida campaign rally President Trump tweeted a new Republican campaign ad highlighting a convicted killer who the video states was “Illegal” and allowed in by “Democrats.”
It is outrageous what the Democrats are doing to our Country. Vote Republican now! https://t.co/0pWiwCHGbh pic.twitter.com/2crea9HF7G
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 31, 2018
Prior to Wednesday’s rally asked, while awaiting departure, if President Trump was engaging in campaign “fear-mongering,” over the caravan that is traveling through Mexico to head to the U.S. Border, President Trump replied “No,” he isn’t.
Trump says Republicans are doing "very well" with women voters because they want security: "They don't want these people pouring into our country totally unchecked" pic.twitter.com/IbRX6dwYh6
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) October 31, 2018
Trump: No I don’t think so whatever it is here’s the thing. I don’t view suburban districts or any other district, I view the country. Our country has to be safe by the way women we are doing very well with women vote, because they want security, they want safety, they don’t want these people pouring into our country totally unchecked and when you look at what happened to the Mexican police and you look at what happened two days ago to the Mexican Military. They are not coming into our country.
President Trump has also told reporters and rally goers alike that he can end birthright citizenship with an Executive Order.
As a reminder, the rally that President will hold on Thursday will not be covered by the News Blender, nor will the next several that President Trump has planned ahead of the mid-term election on Tuesday.
