A video ad tweeted by President Trump is incorrect in suggesting that Democrats are solely responsible for an immigrant cop killer’s presence in the U.S., Marketwatch reports.

“Records in Arizona show Luis Bracamontes was arrested on drug charges in Phoenix in 1998, but released for reasons unknown by the office of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the former Republican law enforcement official for Maricopa County who has styled himself as America’s Toughest Sheriff.”

Arpaio was pardoned by Trump.

“President Trump hammered his hard line on immigration again on Thursday, but some Republicans wish he would shift focus to the economy, lest he drive away suburban voters and mobilize Latino communities against the GOP,” Politico reports.

“Several Republican operatives and officials described a growing sense of fear within the party over Trump’s hardline rhetoric on border security, which he has repeated nearly every day for the past three weeks.”

The Trump administration was informed by the Pentagon that “only a small percentage” of Central American migrants traveling with several “caravans” headed toward the U.S. will likely make it to the border, Newsweek reports.

“The information was received before the administration moved ahead with plans to deploy more than 5,200 troops to the border.”

President Trump announced that the U.S. military would treat any rocks or stones being thrown by asylum-seeking migrants slowly heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border as firearms, Politico reports.

Said Trump: “I will tell you, anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to Mexico and the Mexican military, Mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of Mexico, we will consider that a firearm.”

He added: “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. We’ll consider — and I told them — consider it a rifle. When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military and police, I say consider it a rifle.”

CNN: “For the first half of the month, there was little news coverage of the Central American migrants traveling through Mexico en route to the United States border. Then, on October 16, came the tweets.”

“And with that, just as he has done so often throughout his presidency, Trump commandeered the news cycle, transforming a peripheral story into one that has dominated the run-up to this year’s midterm elections.”

“But the national debate is not limited to whether thousands of migrants should be granted asylum, or whether Trump should deploy troops to the border, or whether he has the right to undo the 14th Amendment by executive order. The story has spawned another intense debate, one limited mostly to journalistic circles, over how — or how much — the press should cover a story that seemingly came out of nowhere and has created widespread misunderstanding.”

President Trump said that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if billionaire philanthropist George Soros or someone else is funding the caravan of Central American migrants moving toward the U.S., The Hill reports.

Said Trump: “I don’t know who, but I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people say yes.”

President Trump said that “he is considering a significant increase to the number of military personnel along the border, two days after he unveiled plans to send 5,200 troops there,”  the Washington Post reports.

Said Trump: “We’ll go up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000 military personnel on top of Border Patrol, ICE and everybody else at the border. Nobody’s coming in. We’re not allowing people to come in.”

Stars and Stripes: “The more than 5,200 active-duty troops being sent by President Donald Trump to the U.S.-Mexico border will be limited in what they can do under a federal law that restricts the military from engaging in law enforcement on American soil.”

“That means the troops will not be allowed to detain immigrants, seize drugs from smugglers or have any direct involvement in stopping a migrant caravan that is still about 1,000 miles from the nearest border crossing.”

“Instead, their role will largely mirror that of the existing National Guard troops — about 2,000 in all — deployed to the border over the past six months, including providing helicopter support for border missions, installing concrete barriers and repairing and maintaining vehicles.”

“There are constitutional scholars who say the 14th amendment has been misinterpreted and actually the Supreme Court has never gave a solid opinion on this.”

— White House adviser Kellyanne Conway, quoted by CBS News.

“Sometimes the Constitution’s text is plain as day and bars what politicians seek to do. That’s the case with President Trump’s proposal to end ‘birthright citizenship’ through an executive order. Such a move would be unconstitutional and would certainly be challenged. And the challengers would undoubtedly win.”

— George Conway, husband of Kellyanne, writing in the Washington Post with Neil Katyal.

President Trump told Axios that 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.

“This would be the most dramatic move yet in Trump’s hardline immigration campaign, this time targeting ‘anchor babies’ and ‘chain migration.’ And it will set off another stand-off with the courts, as Trump’s power to do this through executive action is debatable to say the least.”

Said Trump: “It’s in the process. It’ll happen… with an executive order.”

He added that he was surprised anyone else knew about his secret plan: “I didn’t think anybody knew that but me. I thought I was the only one.”

New York Times: “With the kind of dark language usually reserved for true catastrophes like the Sept. 11 attacks, conservative commentators and politicians have led a concerted push to elevate the caravan as an issue. They have called it ‘an invasion.’ ‘a national emergency,’ ‘an illegal alien mob,’ ‘an attack on America,’ and a crisis with implications that are ‘critical to the future of our civilization.'”

“These outcries, which have included unfounded claims about the caravan’s origins and wildly fluctuating estimates of its size, are playing out in a clear pattern. They often start with right-wing commentators, conspiracy theorists and activist groups with large followings; their talk then breaks through more broadly on Fox News, Breitbart News and other outlets that are popular with conservative voters; and ultimately Mr. Trump tweets or remarks about them, acting as an amplifier and a validator.”

U.S. officials said that some 5,200 additional U.S. troops will deploy to the border with Mexico by the end of the week, as President Trump likened a caravan of Central American migrants who are heading north to “an invasion,” the Washington Post reports.

“The deployments will include three combat engineer battalions, members of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and troops who specialize in aviation, medical treatment and logistics.”

New York Times: “The deployment is the first piece of a multistage approach that Mr. Trump has been considering for several weeks, and which also is expected to include executive action to bar entry to Central Americans, including for those seeking asylum.”

Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade said there’s “entire populations coming in here” bringing “diseases,” and keeping them out is “part of the reason why America’s America.

Said Kimeade: “There’s a reason why you can’t bring a kid to school unless he’s inoculated.”

“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.”

Defense Secretary James Mattis is expected to sign deployment orders that could send 800 or more troops to the border with Mexico to help border patrol authorities stop a caravan of migrants from Central America moving through Mexico to enter the US, CNN reports.

NBC News: “The El Salvadoran caravan is still forming, but its members have plans to begin their journey northward toward the U.S. next week.”

“An internal U.S. government report indicates that DHS is tracking the communications of caravan members, including a 230-member WhatsApp group that intends to leave on October 31.”

“The Trump administration did not tell key government agencies about its ‘zero tolerance’ immigration policy before publicly announcing it in April, leaving the officials responsible for carrying it out unprepared to handle the resulting separations of thousands of children from their families,” the New York Times reports.

“Because they did not know about the ‘zero tolerance’ policy in advance, officials at the Department of Homeland Security said, they did not take steps to prepare for the resulting family separations.”