While waiting for the Wall, President Trump declares to use U.S. Military forces to protect the border between USA and Mexico
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
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| Crews work at the construction site of prototypes for President Trump's border wall in San Diego County. (Bill Wechter for NPR) |
VietPress USA (April 3rd, 2018): In October 2017, Customs and Border Protection paid $20 million to six construction companies from Mississippi, Maryland, Alabama, Texas and Arizona to erect 8 border wall prototypes in a remote section of the San Diego borderlands. Four are solid concrete; three are made of steel and concrete; one is topped with spikes. They all approach 30 feet in height.
Roy Villareal, chief of the San Diego Border Patrol sector said to reporters that "We want a better barrier. One that is hard to scale, hard to penetrate and hard to tunnel under".
During his election campaign in 2016, Trump declared that if he wins, he will build up a wall along border between USA and Mexico to ban illegal immigrants and drugs from Mexico to enter US soil and force Mexico to pay the construction expenses. But until now Trump failed and yesterday he ordered Senate to use "Nuclear Option" for passing the Border Law to build the wall.
Today, Trump declares to use US Military forces to control the border between USA and Mexico until the wall he required will be ready.
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| U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for the Easter service at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., April 1, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas |
Trump says he will use military to protect U.S. border
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would use U.S. military forces to protect the nation's southern border with Mexico until there is a border wall and "proper security" in place.
"We are going to be doing things militarily," Trump told reporters at the White House, adding he had discussed the idea with U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis.
"Until we can have a wall and proper security we’re going to be guarding our border with the military. That’s a big step," he said. "We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way, never showing up for court."
"Until we can have a wall and proper security we’re going to be guarding our border with the military. That’s a big step," he said. "We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way, never showing up for court."
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump had said U.S. foreign aid to Honduras and other countries was at risk unless they stopped what he called a "caravan" of more than 1,200 Central American migrants headed to the U.S. border with Mexico on a 2,000-mile (3,200-km) journey from the Mexico-Guatemalan border.
Mexico's government has said such "caravans" of mostly Central Americans, including many escaping violence in Honduras, have occurred since 2010.
Trump has stepped up his immigration rhetoric in recent days and his administration has moved to further crack down on people who are in the United States illegally.
Trump has already blasted Mexico and threatened to upend the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) over the caravan. The current trip has also put pressure on Mexican authorities ahead of the July 1 presidential election there.
"We will be doing things with Mexico, and they have to do it, otherwise I’m not going to do with the NAFTA deal," Trump told reporters.
In a post on Twitter, he had said the caravan "heading to our 'Weak Laws' Border, had better be stopped before it gets there. Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!"
On Monday, the Republican president railed against Democrats over immigration and again pressed U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation to build his long-promised border wall between the United States and Mexico.
Despite months of efforts, no immigration deal has emerged in the Republican-led Congress, where lawmakers are not expected to pass much major legislation ahead of November's midterm congressional elections.
(Writing by John Whitesides; Editing by Frances Kerry and Bernadette Baum)
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