WASHINGTON _ Steering away from economic issues that resonate with Republican voters, President Donald Trump is seizing on a caravan of migrants that is traveling north through Central America to blame Democrats for the lack of progress on his immigration initiatives three weeks before the midterm elections.
With the GOP under threat of losing control of the House of Representatives, Trump returned Thursday to an issue he described as more important to him than trade and one he is willing to use the U.S military to control.
"I am watching the Democrat Party led (sic) (because they want Open Borders and existing weak laws) assault on our country by Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, whose leaders are doing little to stop this large flow of people, INCLUDING MANY CRIMINALS, from entering Mexico to U.S.," he tweeted early Thursday. He said he must ask Mexico to stop the migrants or "I will call up the U.S. Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!"
