advantage? certainly this is an issue. look at before midterms and closing weeks of midterms how eager the president was to talk about the car vaavan, to stoke fears in that area. he had an opportunity earlier this year to get as much as 25 billion for the wall in exchange for resolving fate of the dreamers. that might have been the best chance for a serious amount of money for the wall, and he did not go for that in the end. the other issue is the wall as a practical matter was a campaign slogan. when you talk to experts and lawmakers, the idea of a concrete wall sea to shining sea doesn t make sense in that way anyway, so it works more as a political issue than something practical in this sense. whatever it is, it is going to have a long lasting impact, depending how the outcome is. david swerdlick, thomas kaplan,
they come with weapons. they come in mass. how many people are in this caravan, and did they have big, powerful weapons? well, they have numbers. it seems that the first ones coming to the border now could be a group of about 4,000. we have not seen brandishing weapons. another sign, though, that the government is treating them like an enemy. reporting yesterday that there are informants. people being paid by dhs in the caravan. a lot of people probably desperate to make money and glad to take it from wherever they can get it to provide information to the u.s. government. and they ve also monitoring their communications. the groups trying to figure out where they re going next. people i ve spoken to who used to be in the positions make the decisions of how to allocate dhs resources particularly on intention say that could be a very dangerous misallocation of resources because they don t see the car vaavan as the top natio