Intensifying his pre-election anti-immigration push, President Trump has said he may send 15,000 troops to the US southern border to keep a slow-moving caravan of Latin American migrants from entering the country, but rejected allegation that he was fearmongering on the issue.
Trump has vowed not to let the caravan of people from three Latin American countries — El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras — enter the US.
“We have about 5,800 (troops deployed on the border). We’ll go up anywhere between 10,000 and 15,000 military personnel, on top of Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and everybody else at the border,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
