Trump says he is 'bringing out the military' to protect border

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

POLITICS OCTOBER 25, 2018 / 7:36 AM / UPDATED 17 MINUTES AGO

Trump says he is 'bringing out the military' to protect border

Makini Brice
3 MIN READ

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was “bringing out the military” to protect the U.S. border as a caravan of Central American migrants continued a slow trek through Mexico toward the United States, but provided no details.

Despite raising Trump’s ire, thousands of Central American men, women and children seeking to escape violence, poverty and government corruption in their home countries continued their journey toward the distant U.S. border. Under a full moon early on Thursday, they walked from Mapastepec, close to the Guatemala border in southern Mexico. A town official said there had been 5,300 migrants in Mapastepec on Wednesday night.

A second group of more than a thousand people has started a similar journey from Guatemala.

“I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!” Trump wrote on Twitter, referring to the migrants.

White House and Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Trump’s comments regarding a military deployment and a national emergency.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-trump/trump-says-he-is-bringing-out-the-military-to-protect-border-idUSKCN1MZ1NC

[C_U_L8R]

1. He is drooling for blood.

Despicable racist despot.

[Ohiogal]

2. The "scary caravan" full of poor people and children

Is dwindling in numbers due to illness, fatigue, harrassment, and fear.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/sickness-fear-harassment-in-mexico-whittle-away-at-caravan/ar-BBORpjx

By the time any of them get to the U.S. border, there probably will only be a hundred or so left!

[spanone]

3. You going to shoot them don? You've already caged thousands...I guess shooting is next.

[woodsprite]

4. We'll be lucky to even have elections on Nov 6th.

You know he's chomping at the bit to declare martial law. I know it's not nice to say, but I hate this cabal who has control of our country. AND I hate that nothing was done to stop it, and that this damned investigation is taking way too long. Our country could be gone and the investigation castrated before Mueller is ready to act on his findings.

[MANative]

5. Seems like this would be dangerously close to a...

posse comitatus situation.