WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said on Thursday he was "bringing out the military" to protect the US border as a caravan of Central American migrants continued to trek through Mexico to the United States, but gave no other details.
"I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!" Trump wrote in a post on Twitter. White House and Pentagon officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment about the military deployment or the national emergency.
On Monday, Trump said he had alerted "Border Patrol and Military" that the migrant caravan, a group of 7,000 to 10,000 Central Americans fleeing violence, poverty and government corruption, was an emergency.
A second group of more than a thousand people has started a similar journey from Guatemala. But a Pentagon spokesman said at the time the defense department had not been asked to provide additional support.
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