The White House on Tuesday said US President Donald Trump planned to deploy the National Guard, a reserve military force, to the guard the southern border with Mexico.<\/p>\n
The statement came hours after Trump talked to reporters about \u201cguarding our border with the military\u201d to stop illegal immigrants from entering the country., a move that even took his aides by surprise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have horrible, horrible and very unsafe laws in the United States,\u201d Trump said. \u201cWe are preparing for the military to secure our border between Mexico and the United States.\u201d He added that he would be discussing it with his national security team later in the day.<\/p>\n
After the meeting, the White House said in a statement that Trump \u201creceived a follow up briefing to discuss his administration\u2019s strategy, which includes the mobilisation of the National Guard\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump has been under pressure from his core support base on border security, and some have been critical of his failure to get adequate funding for the wall he has promised to build along the southern border \u2014 he got a meagre $1.6 billion for it in the recently passed $1.3 trillion spending bill.<\/p>\n
There has also been a growing concern among his supporters about a large group of Central Americans, largely Hondurans, marching through Mexico and headed for the border to cross into the United States. The group has been called a \u201ccaravan\u201d.<\/p>\n
Trump spoke about the \u201ccaravan\u201d at a news briefing at the White House on Tuesday and said he wanted Mexico to prevent people in it from crossing into the US. \u201cThe caravan makes me very sad that this can happen to the United States, where you have thousands of people that decide to just walk into our country, and we don\u2019t have any laws that can protect it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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