White House eyes immigration speech in midterm campaign homestretch
The White House is looking at having President Donald Trump deliver a major speech next week on immigration and the border, bringing those issues to the forefront just days before the November election, a White House official said.
Trump is seeking to capitalize on the progress of the caravan marching toward the US-Mexico border and is urging his aides to develop plans that will allow him to act with force. Trump and his aides also believe the issue is a politically potent one -- not just with his base -- but also with a broader swath of voters turned off by the perception that the southern border is being overrun with immigrants.
The White House is encouraging surrogates to get out and talk about the caravan, a source close to the White House said, as Trump pushes to make immigration the focus of his closing argument to Republican voters.
Executive order?
Aides have floated a potential executive order aimed at restricting migrants in the caravan, the source close to the White House said. It would rely on the same legal rationale as the travel ban issued early in the administration against some Muslim-majority countries to allow immediate repatriation of Central American migrants. That order could prevent those migrants from seeking asylum and entering the United States if they reach the border, but the source said aides are still "trying to figure out the best way to write it" so the order can withstand court challenges.
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