Capital Journal: Trump Vows Deportations and Stands by Wall Plan | Clinton Dismisses Trump’s Mexico Trip | Both Parties See Risk in Down-Ballot Races

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HIGHLIGHTS

•	Trump Vows Deportations and Stands by Wall Plan \| Clinton Dismisses Trump's Mexico Trip

•	Byron Tau: The Open Presser: Trump vs. Clinton

•	Both Parties See Risk From Trump in Down-Ballot Races

•	High Court Rejects N.C. Appeal to Revive Voting Restrictions

•	Video: Trump on Immigration: 'There Will Be No Amnesty'

TRUMP VOWS DEPORTATIONS AND STANDS BY WALL PLAN: Hours after seeming to ease his immigration and trade policy while standing with Mexico's president, Donald Trump reiterated the tough stance that powered his Republican presidential campaign. He told a crowd of raucous supporters in Arizona on Wednesday evening that all illegal immigrants are "subject to deportation" and all those seeking legalization would have to go home and re-enter the country legally. Mr. Trump also doubled-down on his assertion that Mexico will pay to build an "impenetrable" wall on the Southern border. "They don't know it yet, and they're going to pay for it," he said at a rally just hours after his meeting in Mexico City with President Enrique Peña Nieto, who told Mr. Trump that his nation had no intentions of underwriting such a project. In amplifying the harsh tone of his immigration policy, Mr. Trump was placing a clear bet that, on this signature issue of his campaign, it is more important to err on the side of revving up his supporters than to soften his tone to reach out to unpersuaded voters. Reid J. Epstein, Janet Hook and David Luhnow report. [Related: Trump's 10-Part Immigration Plan]

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CLINTON PORTRAYS TRUMP AS THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY: Hillary Clinton offered a withering attack on Donald Trump's approach to foreign policy on a day when he met privately with Mexico's president, casting her Republican presidential rival as a figure who could jeopardize U.S. alliances and national security. In her address to the American Legion's national convention in Cincinnati, the Democratic nominee defended the notion of American "exceptionalism" while suggesting that Mr. Trump offers a more dour view of the country's standing in the world. Peter Nicholas reports.

Plus: Mrs. Clinton's favorability ratings reached a new low in a new national poll out Wednesday, putting her level of unpopularity on par with Donald Trump's ... Mr. Trump said trade has caused a "tremendous" exodus of American jobs. But it's really more of a trickle, economists say.

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BYRON TAU: THE OPEN PRESSER: TRUMP VS. CLINTON

The frequency of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's press conferences has dropped over the summer. Compared to Mrs. Clinton, however, Mr. Trump appears to be a model of press engagement in an unscripted setting. Mr. Trump's brief press conference in Mexico City on Wednesday was his first in 35 days. Mrs. Clinton has not held a full press conference since taking seven questions on Dec. 5, 2015, in Iowa. As of Thursday, that makes 271 days since Mrs. Clinton last took questions from the media in a full press conference organized by the campaign. Read Byron Tau's full post in Washington Wire.

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BOTH PARTIES SEE RISK FROM TRUMP IN DOWN-BALLOT RACES: In November, Republicans could lose a House seat in the western suburbs of Minneapolis, while Democrats are at risk of seeing a seat slip away on Long Island's northern shore. The likely reason in both cases: Donald Trump. Sizing up the impact of the Republican presidential nominee's unorthodox candidacy on down-ballot races has become a preoccupation of political strategists on both sides of the aisle. While Republicans are expected to hold their majority in the House, measuring the Trump effect in those races is an elusive task because few are truly swing districts. Most were specifically drawn by state legislatures to favor one party or another, meaning some Republican districts could be jammed with GOP voters drawn to Trump—or repelled by him. Michelle Hackman reports.

Plus: Joe Arpaio, the sheriff of Arizona's Maricopa County, won his Republican primary Tuesday night, but his vote tally was down sharply from his 2012 race – and that may tell us something about the presidential race there ... In Wisconsin, both candidates vying for the state's Senate seat are outperforming their respective parties' presidential nominees, according to a new poll, suggesting voters dissatisfied with Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Trump could turn to third-party candidates.

HIGH COURT REJECTS APPEAL BY NORTH CAROLINA TO REVIVE VOTING RESTRICTIONS: A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected an emergency appeal by North Carolina seeking to revive stricter state voting rules, which reduced the number of days for early voting and required photo identification at the polls. The high court, in a brief written order, declined to stay an appeals court ruling from July that struck down North Carolina's Republican-backed voting rules. The appeals court found state lawmakers enacted the rules with the intent to discriminate against black voters. North Carolina's bid to restore the rules for Election Day split the short-handed Supreme Court along ideological lines, with four liberal justices rejecting the request and four conservative justices supporting the state. North Carolina needed the votes of five justices to win a stay. Brent Kendall reports.

Plus: A federal appeals court in New York threw out a multimillion-dollar judgment awarded to a group of U.S. terrorism victims, ruling that the U.S. lacked jurisdiction over a lawsuit against the Palestinian Authority and Palestine Liberation Organization.

ALSO IN THE NEWS

• Much of the forensic analysis used in criminal trials isn't scientifically valid, according to a draft report by the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. The report, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, raises questions about the use of bite mark, hair, footwear, firearm and tool mark analysis routinely used as evidence in thousands of trials annually in state and federal courts.

• Price spikes for drugs like EpiPen and Daraprim reflect a lack of competition that can be curbed by allowing generic drugs approved abroad to be sold in the U.S., Greg Ip writes.

• The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued its most serious safety warning about combining narcotic painkillers with certain sedative drugs.

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew took the European Union to task for its decision to levy a $14.5 billion tax bill on tech firm Apple Inc. Tuesday, saying the move amounted to a swipe at the U.S. tax base. The EU will continue to push a raft of measures aimed at reining in U.S. tech giants following the Apple ruling. Money has flowed out of European equity funds every week for more than six months, a stretch that is now longer than the previous record set during the financial crisis.

• Amid the chaotic civil war in Syria, the semiautonomous Rojava region has mushroomed in size and might, alarming Turkey and putting the U.S. uncomfortably in the middle. Russia said it had killed a top member of Islamic State, a day after the Pentagon said it had been the one to target the operative.

• The Justice Department sued to block Deere's planned acquisition of a line of high-tech farming equipment from Monsanto, saying the deal would suppress competition for high-speed planting technology.

• Two regional Federal Reserve bank presidents who oppose proposed operational changes to their institutions will testify at a congressional hearing on the topic next week.

• The number of shooting deaths in Chicago surpassed the total for 2015, with four months still to go in a bloody 2016. A new gun-violence research center in California will be led by a doctor and researcher, Garen Wintemute, who has been using his own money to fund gun-violence research at the University of California, Davis.

• World News: Dilma Rousseff, who struggled as Brazil's president amid a fractious political climate, was removed from office following an impeachment trial. Michel Temer was sworn in as Brazil's president hours before he was set to fly to China for the G-20 summit. A fast-growing breed of global internet crime is revealing a troubling trend: Some fraudsters are easily infiltrating popular dating sites to fleece people out of their savings, law-enforcement officials say. France's Orange SA is in preliminary talks to acquire a stake in Iran's largest cellular operator in what would mark the first time a Western company has acquired a stake in a major Iranian company since nuclear sanctions were lifted in January.

• Two pillars of Elon Musk's empire are facing financial crunches as he seeks to combine the two companies through a controversial acquisition.

VIDEO: TRUMP ON IMMIGRATION: 'THERE WILL BE NO AMNESTY'

Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would deport "criminal illegal immigrants" in the U.S., and that anyone else here illegally could also be subject to deportation. [Watch]

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HERE'S A LOOK AT THE DAY AHEAD

• OBAMA ADMINISTRATION: President Barack Obama visits Midway Atoll to mark the expansion of a marine national monument. He'll remain overnight in Honolulu. Vice President Joe Biden is on the campaign trail for Hillary Clinton.

• ELECTION 2016: Vice President Joe Biden speaks at campaign events for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in Warren, Ohio, at 11 a.m. and in Cleveland at 5:45 p.m. Her running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine is in New Hampshire. He'll participate in a round-table on education in Manchester, N.H., at 3 p.m. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses U.S. military veterans at the American Legion annual convention at 9 a.m. and holds a rally in Wilmington, Ohio, at noon.

• ECONOMIC INDICATORS: The Labor Department releases weekly jobless claims at 8:30 a.m. and second-quarter productivity data at 8:30 a.m. The Institute for Supply Management releases its manufacturing index for August at 10 a.m. The Commerce Department releases construction spending for July at 10 a.m.

WHAT WE'RE READING AROUND THE WEB

• In his big immigration speech Wednesday night, Donald Trump outlined "a 10-point radical immigration overhaul that will animate his base hungry for a bold solution but enrage opponents who find it dehumanizing and impractical," writes David Catanese of U.S. News. Among other things, the candidate "made clear he stood firmly by his advocacy for mass deportations as the only way to properly secure the country."

• Rep. Darrell Issa of California, a prominent House Republican and one of the best-funded candidates of the last decade, is in trouble after enthusiastically endorsing Donald Trump, writes Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker: "It's not too surprising that Issa, in the year of Trump, is having some trouble. His San Diego-area district has more millennials, more Latinos, and fewer older white voters than ever."

• In the WSJ's Think Tank, John Feehery writes of Mr. Trump's immigration speech: "The address and effect were anything but presidential. The speech didn't acknowledge essential contributions that immigrants have made to the U.S. economy, historically or today. It didn't lay out a realistic path to dealing with the 11 million or so undocumented people who live in the shadows of U.S. communities and neighborhoods."

RETWEET
@HillaryClinton: We are not going to criminalize, profile, round up, and deport 16 million people.

RETWEET
@GovMikeHuckabee: Hillary slammed Trump's meeting with a foreign leader. It wasn't secret, and he didn't even get a donation! He's doing it all wrong!

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