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Campaign Rally: u.s.-Mexico Border and American Migrants

campaign rally: In this Oct. 4 photo, U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Mayo Civic Center in Rochester, Minn, according to Toronto Star. In recent days, Trump has made aggressive moves aimed at pushing policies that could boost Republicans in next week's midterm election. Trump in recent days has made aggressive moves aimed at pushing policies that could boost Republicans next week deploying thousands of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in the largest such operation since the Mexican Revolution, floating the idea ending birthright citizenship and warning he intends to halt the caravan of Central American migrants. Evan Vucci / The Associated Press The president has also moved to lower Medicare drug prices and suggested the idea of a 10 per cent tax cut for the middle class, sending administration and congressional officials scrambling to assemble a new tax policy. This is the most focused and concerted effort to use all of the powers of the presidency to shape a midterm election that I have ever seen, said William Galston, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Governance Studies Program and a former domestic policy adviser in the Clinton White House. The cumulative acts reflect the extent to which Trump has transformed parts of the federal bureaucracy into a factory of threats, directives and actions an outgrowth of a campaign strategy which the president and his political advisers settled on as their best chance to hold the Republican congressional majorities. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.