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Trump rages about ‘caravan’ of immigrants entering US

President Trump on Tuesday warned about the “caravan” of immigrants traveling across the “Weak Laws” border of Mexico into the US, as he continued his assault on the mainstream media.

“The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our ‘Weak Laws’ Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,” Trump tweeted in a familiar refrain from his Easter weekend tirade.

“Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!” he continued.

In a separate tweet, the president launched another broadside at the mainstream news networks in the wake of conservative company Sinclair Broadcasting requiring anchors at local TV stations to deliver a canned speech about “false news.”





“The Fake News Networks, those that knowingly have a sick and biased AGENDA, are worried about the competition and quality of Sinclair Broadcast,” he wrote. “The ‘Fakers’ at CNN, NBC, ABC & CBS have done so much dishonest reporting that they should only be allowed to get awards for fiction!”

Trump then singled out CNN, tweeting: “Check out the fact that you can’t get a job at ratings challenged @CNN unless you state that you are totally anti-Trump?

“Little Jeff Zuker, whose job is in jeopardy, is not having much fun lately. They should clean up and strengthen CNN and get back to honest reporting!” he said, misspelling the network president’s surname.

CNN fired back later with its own tweet: “Once again, false.”





“The personal political beliefs of CNN’s employees are of no interest to us. Their pursuit of the truth is our only concern,” the network’s communications account said.

“Also, Jeff’s last name is spelled Z-U-C-K-E-R. Those are the facts. #FactsFirst.”

CNN also sought to dispel Trump’s comment about its ratings.

“As for ‘challenged,’ CNN just finished its second highest rated first quarter in the past nine years. Those are the facts. #FactsFirst,” it tweeted.

Trump launched his most recent attack on immigration on Monday morning by a referencing a report on Fox News about a “caravan” of people from Central America trying to reach the US to seek asylum.

In his tweetstorm, the president urged Congress to pass legislation to bolster border security — also suggesting the use of the “nuclear option” to make it easier for GOP lawmakers to pass bills.





The nuclear option would allow the Republican-controlled Senate to alter voting rules to require a simple majority of 51 votes to pass legislation instead of the 60 votes required now.

Trump was referring to a group of about 1,200 Central American people — many from Honduras — heading toward the US border as part of an annual Holy Week event led by the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras, or People Without Borders.

“Mexico has the absolute power not to let these large ‘Caravans’ of people enter their country. They must stop them at their Northern Border, which they can do because their border laws work, not allow them to pass through into our country, which has no effective border laws…..,” he tweeted Monday.





Despite the president’s attack, Pueblo Sin Fronteras hopes the publicity will help the cause.

“We’re a little bit scared but at the same time we’re a little bit happy because we got his attention,” Josael Romero, one of the group’s organizers, told The Hill in an email.

Trump also declared dead the Obama-era policy Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that protects from deportation immigrants brought to the US illegally as children by their parents.

DACA, which Trump ordered phased out in September, only protects immigrants brought to the United States before 2007.





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