Trump Mulls Plan to Ban Entry of Migrants Seeking Asylum

“President Trump is weighing a plan to ban entry of migrants at southern border and deny them asylum,” the Washington Post reports.

“With the president’s attention fixed on the migrant caravan moving north through Mexico, the White House is considering whether to shut the border to Central Americans and deny them the opportunity to seek asylum in the United States, asserting similar emergency powers used during the administration’s controversial travel ban in early 2017.”

New York Times: “It would also be the most drastic in a series of steps Mr. Trump has taken or threatened to take in recent days — including preparations on Thursday to send as many as 1,000 active-duty Army troops to help secure the southern border — as he works to stoke fears of what he has called an ‘onslaught’ of immigrants only days before the midterm elections.”