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4A Friday, October 26, 2018
The Times, Gainesville, Georgia | gainesvilletimes.com
WASHINGTON/POLITICS
Trump planning to
dispatch 800 active duty
troops to Mexico border
RODRIGO ABD I Associated Press
Central American migrants traveling with a caravan to the
U.S. make their way to Pijijiapan, Mexico, Thursday, Oct. 25.
Saudi Arabia changes its
story on Khashoggi killing
LEFTERIS PITARAKIS I Associated Press
Activists, protesting the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal
Khashoggi, hold a candlelight vigil outside Saudi Arabia’s
consulate in Istanbul, Thursday, Oct. 25.
BY ROBERT BURNS
AND JILL COLVIN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Trump administration is
planning to dispatch at least
800 active duty troops to the
southern border at the direc
tion of a president who has
sought to transform fears
about immigration into elec
toral gains in the midterms
as a caravan of thousands
of migrants makes its way
through Mexico.
Defense Secretary Jim
Mattis is expected to sign
an order sending the troops
to the border, bolstering
National Guard forces
already there, an official
said Thursday. The action
comes as President Donald
Trump has spent recent days
calling attention to the cara
van of Central Americans
slowly making their way by
foot into southern Mexico,
but still more than 1,000
miles from U.S. soil.
Trump, who made fear
about immigrants a major
theme of his 2016 election
campaign, has been eager
to make it a top issue head
ing into the Nov. 6 midterm
elections, which will deter
mine control of Congress.
The president and senior
White House officials have
long believed the issue is
key to turning out his base of
supporters.
The additional troops
would provide logistical and
other support to the Border
Patrol, said the U.S. official,
who spoke on condition of
anonymity to discuss a plan
that had not been finalized
and formally announced.
It’s not unusual for the
National Guard to help with
border security. Active duty
troops, however, are rarely
deployed within the United
States except for domestic
emergencies like hurricanes
or floods. Fears of militariz
ing the border were fanned
by a May 1997 incident in
which a Marine on a coun
ter-narcotics mission shot
to death an 18-year-old who
was herding goats in Red-
ford, Texas.
Troops being sent at
Trump’s direction would
not be on armed security
missions. They would assist
the Border Patrol by provid
ing things such as vehicles,
tents and equipment. There
already are about 2,000
National Guard members
there under a previous Pen
tagon arrangement.
Trump has used the cara
van to bolster his election-
season warnings that the U.S.
is being infiltrated by illegal
immigrants “pouring across
the border,” whom he has
painted with a sinister brush.
He has claimed, without
any apparent basis in fact,
that “Middle Easterners”
were among the group.
At rallies and on Twitter,
Trump has tried to portray
the Democrats as pro-illegal
immigration, even claiming,
with no evidence, that Demo
crats organized the caravan.
He tweeted Thursday
that, “Democrat inspired
laws make it tough for us
to stop people at the bor
der” and said he was using
the military to respond to
what he called a “National
Emergency.”
The migrants in the
sprawling caravan — once
estimated by the United
Nations to number more
than 7,000 — are hoping to
make it to the United States.
Most are Hondurans, seeking
to escape poverty and vio
lence, and include families
with children.
The caravan swelled dra
matically soon after cross
ing the Mexican border on
Oct. 19, but sickness, fear
and police harassment have
whittled down its numbers.
Trump tweeted a direct
message to the migrants
Thursday, urging them to
return home.
“To those in the Caravan,
turnaround,” he wrote. “We
are not letting people into
the United States illegally.
Go back to your Country and
if you want, apply for citizen
ship like millions of others
are doing!”
The migrants have largely
been disconnected from
news reports about them.
When asked about Trump’s
tweets, they have generally
responded that he should
stop attacking them and said
they would keep heading
north.
Candy Guillermo, a
37-year-old migrant in the
caravan who had heard
about the plan to deploy
troops, was surprised she
and the children in group
would be considered a
threat. “Trump should be
more humanitarian,” she
said. “We only want to give
our kids a better future.”
Migrants who do reach the
U.S. border can claim asy
lum under U.S. and interna
tional law. Those who clear
an initial screening are often
released until their cases
are decided in immigration
court, which can take sev
eral years.
The U.S. had 331,700 asy
lum claims in 2017, more
than any country in the
world, according to the U.N.
Refugee Agency. That’s
nearly double the asylum
claims the U.S. fielded in
2015 and nearly quadruple
the claims in 2013.
BY AYA BATRAWY AND
CHRISTOPHER T0RCHIA
Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Ara
bia — Signaling a major
pivot in its narrative,
Saudi Arabia on Thurs
day said evidence shows
that the killing of journal
ist Jamal Khashoggi was
premeditated, an appar
ent effort to ease inter
national outrage over
the death of a prominent
critic of Crown Prince
Mohammed bin Salman.
The Saudi prosecutors
cited Turkish evidence
that the slaying was
planned, contradicting a
Saudi assertion just days
ago that rogue officials
from the kingdom killed
him by mistake in a brawl
inside their Istanbul con
sulate. That earlier asser
tion, in turn, backtracked
from an initial statement
that Saudi authorities
knew nothing about what
happened to the colum
nist for The Washington
Post, who vanished after
entering the consulate
Oct. 2.
The shifting explana
tions indicate Saudi Ara
bia is scrambling for a
way out of the crisis that
has enveloped the world’s
largest oil exporter and
a major U.S. ally in the
Middle East. But a solu
tion seems a long way off,
partly because of deepen
ing skepticism in Turkey
and elsewhere that the
brazen crime could have
been carried out without
the knowledge of Prince
Mohammed, the king
dom’s heir apparent.
At a conference in
Riyadh on Wednesday,
the crown prince said
the killing was a “heinous
crime that cannot be justi
fied” and warned against
any efforts to “manipu
late” the crisis and drive
a wedge between Saudi
Arabia and Turkey,
which are regional rivals but
also diplomatic and business
partners.
On Thursday, Prince
Mohammed attended the
first meeting of a commit
tee aiming to restructure
the kingdom’s intelligence
services after the killing of
Khashoggi, the state-run
Saudi Press Agency said.
Khashoggi’s death has
derailed the powerful
prince’s campaign to proj
ect a modern image of the
ultraconservative country,
instead highlighting the bru
tal lengths to which some top
officials in the government
have gone to silence its crit
ics. Khashoggi, who lived
in self-imposed exile in the
United States for nearly a
year before his death, had
written critically of Prince
Mohammed’s crackdown on
dissent.
A statement by Saudi Attor
ney General Saud al-Mojeb
attributed the latest findings
of a joint Turkish-Saudi inves
tigation to information from
Turkish counterparts. The
evidence of Turkish inves
tigators “indicates that the
suspects in the incident had
committed their act with a
premeditated intention,” the
Saudi government statement
said.
After the journalist disap
peared, Saudi Arabia ini
tially insisted Khashoggi had
walked out of the consulate
after visiting the building. It
later dropped that account
for a new one, saying it had
detained 18 people for what
it described as an accidental
killing during a “fistfight.”
What U.S. President Don
ald Trump called “one of the
worst cover-ups in the history
of cover-ups” was revealed to
the world by Turkish leaks of
information, including ref
erences to purported audio
recordings of the killing, and
security camera footage of
the Saudi officials who were
involved as they moved
around Istanbul.
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