Trump: Caravan migrants will be put into “tent cities

No Images? Click here




By Paul Vale




Tuesday, October 30
TRUMP: MIGRANTS WILL GO INTO ‘TENT CITIES’ President Donald Trump said he planned to put people from the migrant caravan who apply for asylum into new “tent cities” that would be “all over the place.” Speaking to Fox News, he said: “We’re catching; we’re not releasing. If they apply for asylum, we’re going to hold them until such time as their trial takes place.” [HuffPost] [Tweet | Share on Facebook]
TRUMP FLOATS END TO BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP Trump said he plans to sign an executive order that would remove the right to citizenship for babies of non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants born on U.S. soil. [HuffPost]
WHITE HOUSE SENDS 5,000 TROOPS TO BORDER The Trump administration is sending at least 5,200 active-duty troops to the border this week in what officials defended as a necessary response to a roughly 3,500-person migrant caravan still weeks from reaching the United States. [HuffPost]
PRESIDENT HEADS TO PITTSBURGH DESPITE PLEAS Trump plans to visit Pittsburgh today, four days after an anti-Semitic gunman killed 11 people at a synagogue — even though the mayor and Jewish leaders in the city have asked him to stay away. [HuffPost]
HOW HATE FLOWS FROM FOX TO TRUMP TO PITTSBURGH This is how hysteria and hatred about migrants spread from Fox News to Trump — and then to Pittsburgh. And it’s not just Fox: The NRA regularly traffics in the sort of inflammatory rhetoric and conspiratorial anti-Semitism that has boiled over into violence in the past week. [HuffPost]
LION AIR PASSENGER REMAINS PULLED FROM JAVA SEA Divers and rescue teams are working to recover passenger remains after a new Boeing jet for Lion Air lost altitude off Java, killing all 189 people on board. The aircraft's fuselage and flight data recorders are yet to be recovered. [AP]
DOMESTIC TERRORIST: LISTEN TO TRUMP’S RHETORIC Attorneys for a Trump supporter convicted in a domestic terrorism plot aimed at slaughtering Muslim refugees asked a federal judge to factor in the “backdrop” of Trump’s campaign rhetoric when deciding their client’s sentence this week. [HuffPost]









VENICE UNDER WATER Venice, Italy, was hit with a high tide on Monday, leaving some 70 percent of the city covered in five feet of water, according to local officials. [HuffPost]
GOP LAWMAKER CALLS OPPONENT ‘INDO-AMERICAN’ Rep. Pete Olson, a Texas Republican in a tough re-election battle, would not explain to a constituent why he recently called his Democratic opponent an “Indo-American carpetbagger.” [HuffPost]
PHARRELL TO TRUMP: STOP PLAYING ‘HAPPY’ Attorneys for Pharrell Williams sent Trump a “cease and desist” letter denouncing the use of the artist’s song “Happy” at an event Trump headlined on Saturday, hours after the deadly mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. [HuffPost]
A NEW ERA OF EXTREMISM When it launched in 2016, Gab.com touted itself as one of the last bastions of free speech on the internet. Two years later, as the site is “de-platformed” in the wake of its link to the anti-Semetic mass shooting in Pittsburgh, Gab has become an even more redolent example of how technology is eroding democracy and giving rise to a new era of right-wing extremism. [Vanity Fair]
CHINESE CIRCUIT COMPANY HIT WITH EXPORT BAN The Trump administration is restricting exports to China’s state-backed Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Co. — the latest escalation in Washington's trade fight with Beijing. The export ban was put in place because Fujian Jinhua "poses a significant risk of becoming involved in activities that are contrary to the national security interests of the United States," the Commerce Department said. [CNN]
GOP ATTACKS JERSEY BOY AS OUTSIDER ELITIST Andy Kim is a South Jersey boy who wants to unseat Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.), one of the Garden State’s Trumpiest Republicans. So the GOP is attacking this son of South Korean immigrants as an outsider. [HuffPost]

ΠΗΓΗ