Yeah, most let their party politicians decide their vote instead of doing some honest research.
Either we turn out en masse and vote American or expect whatever you may have in the bank to diminish or whatever your dreams may be will never materialize because we won't have a blue Wave or even a Red Wave, we'll have a migrant/illegal wave and it will take everything this country has and more to provide for their needs.
Today, the migrants clashed with Mexican police and one migrant died...if they have such little disregard for the Mexican authorities, how little regard will they have for our military, our Border patrol, our laws, our police?? We will see crimes occurring that we have never had in our worst nightmare, crimes of all types will increase exponentially as will disease in our children, schools etc. Think this is ridiculous and far fetched? Don't vote conservative and find out! We've all seen the changes eight years has brought to this country and even now people are still wanting change!
Today, the migrants clashed with Mexican police and one migrant died...if they have such little disregard for the Mexican authorities, how little regard will they have for our military, our Border patrol, our laws, our police?? We will see crimes occurring that we have never had in our worst nightmare, crimes of all types will increase exponentially as will disease in our children, schools etc. Think this is ridiculous and far fetched? Don't vote conservative and find out! We've all seen the changes eight years has brought to this country and even now people are still wanting change!
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The Mexican Government has offered them asylum and their equivalent of green cards to stay in Mexico and work. If I heard right less than 100 took the offer of the 7000 + marching. The rest chanted USA! USA!
We actually can't give them asylum as I understand it. Its some international law or something saying folks seeking refugee status have to apply in the first country they enter to qualify. You can't pass through one country to go shopping for the country you want to live in.
News reporters have asked many of them why they are coming to the USA, and the majority said they want jobs, or the want the American dream, etc.
It's not asylum they are looking for, its immigration and they think they will bully their way into the country. FOX interviewed one guy that had been deported because of an attempted murder charge and he said in the interview that he would cross illegally if he wasn't allowed back in because his wife and child live in the USA.
Meanwhile 5200 US Troops are headed for the border.
http://abc57.com/news/pentagon-sending-5-200-troops-to-secure-border
WASHINGTON (AP) — A week out from the midterm elections, the Pentagon said Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border in an extraordinary military operation to help stop illegal crossings by a caravan of migrants moving slowly north in Mexico, still hundreds of miles from the U.S. border.
President Donald Trump himself, eager to focus voters on immigration in the lead-up to the elections, escalated his threats against the caravan, tweeting: "This is an invasion of our Country and our Military is waiting for you!"
His warning came as the Pentagon began executing "Operation Faithful Patriot," described by the commander of U.S. Northern Command as an effort to help Customs and Border Protection stiffen defenses at and near legal entry points. Advanced helicopters will enable border protection agents to swoop down on migrants, he said.
"We're going to secure the border," Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy, the Northern Command leader, said at a news conference. He spoke alongside Kevin McAleenan, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.
Eight hundred troops already are on their way to southern Texas, O'Shaughnessy said, and their numbers will top 5,200 by week's end. He said troops would focus first on Texas, followed by Arizona and then California.
The caravan of 3,500 has shrunk from a peak of about 7,200 migrants a week ago, but a second caravan of about 600 had formed and was clashing with federal police on a bridge from Guatemala to Mexico.
The military operation drew quick criticism.
"Sending active military forces to our southern border is not only a huge waste of taxpayer money, but an unnecessary course of action that will further terrorize and militarize our border communities," said Shaw Drake of the American Civil Liberties Union's border rights center at El Paso, Texas.
Military personnel are legally prohibited from engaging in immigration enforcement. The troops will include military police, combat engineers and others helping on the southern border.
Customs and Border Protection is pushing a surge in personnel in response to the caravan of Central American immigrants. The military troops are intended to assist the border patrol, not engage directly with migrants.
The White House is also weighing additional border security measures, including blocking those traveling in the caravan from seeking legal asylum and keeping them from entering the U.S.
The escalating rhetoric and expected deployments come as the president has been trying to turn the caravan into a key election issue with just days to go before the midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress.
"This will be the election of the caravans, the Kavanaughs, law and order, tax cuts, and you know what else? It's going to be the election of common sense," Trump said at a rally in Illinois on Saturday night.
He continued his threats on Monday, tweeting, without providing evidence, that, "Many Gang Members and some very bad people are mixed into the Caravan heading to our Southern Border."
"Please go back," he urged them, "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!"
The president's dark description of the caravan belied the fact that any migrants who complete the long trek to the southern U.S. border face already major hurdles, both physical and bureaucratic, to being allowed into the United States. Migrants are entitled under both U.S. and international law to apply for asylum, but it may take while to make a claim. There is already a bottleneck of asylum seekers at some U.S. border crossings, in some cases as long as five weeks.
A possible announcement by Trump on the other border measures had been tentatively slated for Tuesday, administration officials had said, but he is instead traveling to Pittsburgh, where a gunman massacred 11 people at a synagogue Saturday in what is believed to be the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Monday pushed off questions about the caravan and possible border measures.
"We have a number of options on the table," she said, adding she'd let the public know of any upcoming immigration speeches but she was unaware of any right now.
The troops are expected to perform a wide variety of functions such as transporting supplies for the Border Patrol, but not engage directly with migrants seeking to cross the border from Mexico, officials said. One U.S. official said the troops will be sent initially to staging bases in California, Texas and Arizona while the CBP works out precisely where it wants the troops positioned. U.S. Transportation Command posted a video on its Facebook page Monday of a C-17 transport plane that it said was delivering Army equipment to the Southwest Border in support of Operation Faithful Patriot.
The U.S. military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with the deployment plans.
Mattis told reporters traveling with him Sunday that the deployment was still being worked out, but that the additional troops would provide logistical and other support to the Border Patrol and bolster the efforts of the approximately 2,000 National Guard forces already there. That includes functions such as air support and equipment, including vehicles and tents.
Trump has spent the last week trying to call attention to the caravan traveling by foot through Mexico. It remains hundreds of miles from U.S. soil.
Edit: There is another caravan forming in El Salvador currently which would be the third heading for the US border.
The US Troops are there only for support of the border patrol, the National Guard, and will not engage the invaders by US law.
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"Jobs" isn't going to cut it, we have an economy here and things are going fairly smooth in that regard from what I've read. If these young men do run the blockade we don't have the jobs to fill. No habla Espanol -the vast majority aren't taking an English course either. There also is resentment among the immigrants here who came legally.
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More slanted news from nbc?
Young Americans signal record turnout for midterm elections, reject Trump and the GOP: Poll
Published 3 hours ago Updated 23 min ago
The campus of Columbia University in New York City
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The newest generation of voters is more energized to vote in the midterm elections than it has been in previous cycles — but not for President Donald Trump or the Republican Party, a recent poll found.
The survey, released Monday by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, shows a more politically mobilized crop of young Americans leaning away from Trump and the GOP in the midterms in near-equal proportions, even as the majority party’s core issues — immigration, jobs and the economy — rank among their highest concerns.
At the same time, the 18-to-29-year-old respondents are more aligned with some progressive policies, though they have yet to fully embrace the label of “Democratic Socialist” applied to politicians such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders or New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the president were quick to draw dire implications from the poll. Bill Kristol, who founded the conservative political magazine The Weekly Standard and is often lambasted as a “Never Trumper” by the president’s allies, said the GOP needs to “dump Trump” if it wants a future.
Forty percent of Americans under the age of 30 said they will definitely vote in the upcoming elections, according to the study, which gathered responses from more than 2,000 people. That response is higher than polls in the past two midterm elections, The Washington Post reported.
Nearly twice as many respondents identified with the Democratic Party over the GOP — 41 percent to 21 percent, while 35 percent said they were unaffiliated or independents.
That gap widened significantly when they were asked about Trump’s job as president: 68 percent of overall respondents said they disapprove of Trump’s performance after nearly two years in office, compared with just 26 percent who do approve. It grew wider still among likely voters, with 72 percent of that group disapproving of Trump’s job.
While Trump’s often polarizing rhetoric makes a stark divide in approval less than surprising, the survey shows nearly the same lopsided ratings for congressional Republicans. Twenty-five percent of respondents approved of the GOP’s job performance in Congress, while 68 percent disapprove. The gap among likely voters grew to 22 percent who approve and 75 percent who disapprove — a 53 percentage-point gap.
Democrats in Congress were given a more even split, though a 53 percent majority still disapprove of their performance.
Young Americans also appear to look at the two major parties as a proxy for their broader feelings about the direction in which the country is headed. Nearly three in five respondents said they are more fearful than hopeful about the future of the U.S., and a 43 percent plurality said they would have more fear if the GOP held onto its majority in the House after the midterms. In contrast, 42 percent of those polled said they would have more hope if Democrats clinched a House majority.
Trump has ratcheted up his attacks on Democrats in the weeks leading up to the November congressional elections. He has claimed that Democrats want to establish a socialist dystopia in America that would reshape it in the image of Venezuela. The president has also placed special attention on migrants traveling to the U.S. in hopes of seeking asylum, claiming without providing evidence that “unknown Middle Easterners” and criminals are embedded within the caravans, and pledging to send thousands of active duty troops to the southern border.
The strategy, along with his regular boasts about the strong performance of the U.S. economy under his administration, does appear to line up with the main concerns of those polled in the Harvard survey. Respondents say “Immigration/Refugee Issues” and “Jobs and Economy” are the two top national issues of concern.
But the survey also shows 39 percent of them supporting democratic socialism — just 4 percentage points less than capitalism. The majority also showed support for several issues linked to the democratic socialist agenda, including a so-called federal jobs guarantee that would ensure employment with a wage of at least $15 an hour for every American. Fifty-five percent also approve of a single-payer health-care system, which Trump recently attacked in an op-ed for USA Today.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/you...rd-midterm-turnout-reject-trump-gop-poll.html
Young Americans signal record turnout for midterm elections, reject Trump and the GOP: Poll
Published 3 hours ago Updated 23 min ago
The campus of Columbia University in New York City
Getty Images
The newest generation of voters is more energized to vote in the midterm elections than it has been in previous cycles — but not for President Donald Trump or the Republican Party, a recent poll found.
The survey, released Monday by Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics, shows a more politically mobilized crop of young Americans leaning away from Trump and the GOP in the midterms in near-equal proportions, even as the majority party’s core issues — immigration, jobs and the economy — rank among their highest concerns.
At the same time, the 18-to-29-year-old respondents are more aligned with some progressive policies, though they have yet to fully embrace the label of “Democratic Socialist” applied to politicians such as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders or New York Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Critics of the president were quick to draw dire implications from the poll. Bill Kristol, who founded the conservative political magazine The Weekly Standard and is often lambasted as a “Never Trumper” by the president’s allies, said the GOP needs to “dump Trump” if it wants a future.
Forty percent of Americans under the age of 30 said they will definitely vote in the upcoming elections, according to the study, which gathered responses from more than 2,000 people. That response is higher than polls in the past two midterm elections, The Washington Post reported.
Nearly twice as many respondents identified with the Democratic Party over the GOP — 41 percent to 21 percent, while 35 percent said they were unaffiliated or independents.
That gap widened significantly when they were asked about Trump’s job as president: 68 percent of overall respondents said they disapprove of Trump’s performance after nearly two years in office, compared with just 26 percent who do approve. It grew wider still among likely voters, with 72 percent of that group disapproving of Trump’s job.
While Trump’s often polarizing rhetoric makes a stark divide in approval less than surprising, the survey shows nearly the same lopsided ratings for congressional Republicans. Twenty-five percent of respondents approved of the GOP’s job performance in Congress, while 68 percent disapprove. The gap among likely voters grew to 22 percent who approve and 75 percent who disapprove — a 53 percentage-point gap.
Democrats in Congress were given a more even split, though a 53 percent majority still disapprove of their performance.
Young Americans also appear to look at the two major parties as a proxy for their broader feelings about the direction in which the country is headed. Nearly three in five respondents said they are more fearful than hopeful about the future of the U.S., and a 43 percent plurality said they would have more fear if the GOP held onto its majority in the House after the midterms. In contrast, 42 percent of those polled said they would have more hope if Democrats clinched a House majority.
Trump has ratcheted up his attacks on Democrats in the weeks leading up to the November congressional elections. He has claimed that Democrats want to establish a socialist dystopia in America that would reshape it in the image of Venezuela. The president has also placed special attention on migrants traveling to the U.S. in hopes of seeking asylum, claiming without providing evidence that “unknown Middle Easterners” and criminals are embedded within the caravans, and pledging to send thousands of active duty troops to the southern border.
The strategy, along with his regular boasts about the strong performance of the U.S. economy under his administration, does appear to line up with the main concerns of those polled in the Harvard survey. Respondents say “Immigration/Refugee Issues” and “Jobs and Economy” are the two top national issues of concern.
But the survey also shows 39 percent of them supporting democratic socialism — just 4 percentage points less than capitalism. The majority also showed support for several issues linked to the democratic socialist agenda, including a so-called federal jobs guarantee that would ensure employment with a wage of at least $15 an hour for every American. Fifty-five percent also approve of a single-payer health-care system, which Trump recently attacked in an op-ed for USA Today.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/you...rd-midterm-turnout-reject-trump-gop-poll.html
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