Trump to send up to 1,000 troops to Mexico border as migrant caravan approaches
‘I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!’
Washington/Pijijiapan — US President Donald Trump’s administration may send up to 1,000 active-duty troops to the US-Mexico border, officials said on Thursday, as Trump hammered away at the issue of illegal immigration two weeks ahead of congressional elections. Trump’s threat was sparked by the advance of a caravan of Central American migrants trekking through Mexico, headed toward the US. “I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!” Trump wrote on Twitter. But the migrants appeared undeterred on Thursday night as several thousand of them bedded down more than 1,600km from the US border, in the town of Pijijiapan in Mexico’s southern Chiapas state, after hiking hours from their last stop. “Whatever Trump may say, he’s not going to hold us back,” said Denis Omar Contreras, a caravan organiser from Honduras, who plans to help lead the group to northern Mexico. Many said the fear of returning to a violent homeland loomed larger than the US presid...
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