Trump Claims Migrant Caravan in Mexico Has 'Unknown Middle Easterners'

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Trump Claims Migrant Caravan in Mexico Has ‘Unknown Middle Easterners’
President threatens to end U.S. aid to Central American countries
Posted Oct 22, 2018 9:20 AM
John T. Bennett


Without offering evidence to support the claim, President Donald Trump on Monday contended a large caravan of Central American migrants also includes “unknown Middle Easterners.”

He also threatened to end foreign aid to countries from which most members of the caravan come. That list includes Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. Trump has proposed foreign aid cuts before, only to have Republican and Democratic lawmakers reject them and allocate the funds via massive spending bills Trump was forced to sign to avert more government shutdowns on his watch.

Link to tweet

Mexican law enforcement forces have tried to slow the large group of migrants as they attempt to move through the country toward its border with the United States. Citing violence and a lack of jobs, the migrants are trying to enter the U.S. over the objections of Trump and many Republican lawmakers.

U.S. officials have said most of the members of the group are Hondurans, but now the commander in chief says he has alerted U.S. Border Patrol and military leaders that the caravan’s approach amounts to a national emergency.

“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in,” Trump wrote in a Monday morning tweet.

He did not provide an explanation for the claim, including whether he received the alleged information from U.S. intelligence officials. Trump frequently makes false statements that appeal to and fire up his conservative base; the crucial congressional midterms are just 15 days away.

The president, who last week said he would send active-duty American military troops to secure the U.S.-Mexico border, added he has “alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy [sic].”

Sending active-duty troops to the border for a domestic law enforcement matter would require congressional approval. Both chambers, however, are slated to be in recess until the week after the Nov. 6 elections. The 1878 Posse Comitatus Act bars a sitting president from using the military as a police force, but he could ask the House and Senate to grant him a waiver — though Senate Democrats almost inevitably would block it.

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https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/trump-claims-migrant-caravan-unknown-middle-easterners

[unblock]

1. and they're carrying emails! from a pedophile pizza basement! waving pictures of pelosi!

[Grasswire2]

3. hahaha! nt

[durablend]

14. And checks from Soros!

Don't forget!

[Grasswire2]

2. He can't do dat.

See the other thread. Congress allocates foreign aid.

He's all about scaring his deplorables.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. This is just pure, unadulterated, 100% racism.

By the way, if they are unknown, how dies he know they exist.

This entire Presidency is a giant "emergy."

[Solly Mack]

5. Trump would cease to exist, go into the void, if he could not lie.

Simply poof into nothingness.

If only...

[MFM008]

6. Hes in a panic

Pure panic.

[uponit7771]

8. +1, throwing crap against the wall hoping his Russian pals come through the his time

[Stallion]

7. Naw! That's a Just about a hundred guys named Jesus from Central America

wrong guy-not from Jerusalem

[DFW]

9. And I claim that Trump's brain is experiencing shrinkage and has unknown lesions

And I have at least as much proof for my claim as he has for his.

I got it from an anonymsssshhhhh source while drinking hot covfefe.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

12. fake nuz!

Covfefe is ingested through the nose.

[DFW]

13. To paraphrase Trump himself

I don't know what holes he uses to ingest his covfefe

[Hermit-The-Prog]

15. brain bleach needed

TrumPutin may use the older definition of boofing for his covfefe.

[Haynx]

10. Irresponsible and lazy journalism

It should have been noted in the headline that there is no evidence for this claim.

[JimGinPA]

11. Um...

That's what "claim" means - stating something without offering evidence or proof.

[anarch]

16. "be very afraid of the scary brown people!!"

I think it would be hysterical if the "caravan" just passed right on through the U.S....like "umm, fuck no we don't want to live here; we're on our way to Canada you racist dipshits!"

[JI7]

17. is MBS among them ?

[Garrett78]

18. Just appealing to his "economically anxious" base.