Updated at 6:43 p.m. ET
President Trump delivered a White House broadside against illegal immigration Thursday, underscoring what has become his central focus in the final days of the midterm election campaign.
The televised speech, delivered from the Roosevelt Room, offered little in the way of specific policy prescriptions. But it served to elevate an issue that Trump has been hawking at campaign rallies and on Twitter. Aides promoted the president’s remarks as an update on the “illegal immigration crisis,” although unauthorized border crossings remain far below their historic highs.
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