{"id":383791,"date":"2018-11-05T16:17:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democratic-candidates-praise-trumps-attacks-on-immigrants-as-troops-arrive-at-the-border-2\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T15:17:12","slug":"democratic-candidates-praise-trumps-attacks-on-immigrants-as-troops-arrive-at-the-border-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/democratic-candidates-praise-trumps-attacks-on-immigrants-as-troops-arrive-at-the-border-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic candidates praise Trump\u2019s attacks on immigrants as troops arrive at the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Democratic candidates praise Trump\u2019s attacks on immigrants as troops arrive at the border<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Eric London<br \/>\n    <br \/>5 November 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Hundreds of armed soldiers have deployed to the US-Mexico border, setting up over 170 miles of razor wire, erecting barricades at border crossing points and staging armed military drills in full view of immigrants waiting to cross.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a campaign rally Saturday, President Donald Trump said: \u201cWe have our military on the border. And I noticed all that beautiful barbed wire going up today. Barbed wire used properly can be a beautiful sight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thousands more soldiers\u2014up to 15,000 in all\u2014are en route to the border. The Pentagon claims 3,500 are already staging at bases near the border, including 1,000 Marines in California. They will be deployed in both uninhabited desert regions and major metropolitan areas such as San Diego, California, and El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Party has signaled that should it take control of one or both houses of Congress in Tuesday\u2019s midterm elections, it will collaborate with Trump\u2019s crackdown against immigrants. Almost all of its Senate candidates in closely contested races have endorsed Trump\u2019s attack on immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Manchin (West Virginia) said he is open to rescinding the 14th Amendment\u2019s establishment of birthright citizenship. Joe Donnelly (Indiana), who has declared his support for ending birthright citizenship, is running advertisements denouncing immigrants. Claire McCaskill (Missouri) said she supports Trump\u2019s decision to deploy troops to the border \u201c100 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phil Bredesen (Tennessee) is also campaigning in support of Trump\u2019s anti-immigrant policies and warns that the immigrant caravan moving north from Honduras will bring \u201cchaos.\u201d Two other candidates\u2014Heidi Heitkamp&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/11\/05\/immi-n05.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Democratic candidates praise Trump\u2019s attacks on immigrants as troops arrive at the border By Eric London 5 November 2018 Hundreds of armed soldiers have deployed to the US-Mexico border, setting up over 170 miles of razor wire, erecting barricades at border crossing points and staging armed military drills in full view of immigrants waiting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-383791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}