Wednesday, 9 January 2019

Donald Trump fuels immigration fears in TV address on 'border crisis'

President offers no new solutions to government shutdown in first Oval Office address of his presidency

Donald Trump has used the first Oval Office address of his presidency to stoke fears of illegal immigration, repeat dubious claims about his border wall and offer no new solutions to the partial government shutdown.

In the type of made-for-TV-moment he relishes, the US president blamed criminal gangs and “vast quantities of illegal drugs” for “thousands of deaths” and faulted Democrats for failing to end the shutdown, now in its 18th day. Democrats accused him of fear-mongering.

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from US news | The Guardian http://bit.ly/2FeM5TZ

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