Trump threatens ‘much tougher hand’ on illegal immigrants claiming the U.S. spends billions every year supporting them but ‘this will not continue’
President Trump says he’ll be ‘forced to play a much tougher hand’ if Democrats refuse to pass his initiatives to deter illegal immigration
Is said to be considering an executive order that would suspend asylum rules for Central American migrants in advance of the caravan
Trump says asylum seekers’ claims will be immediately and unequivocally be denied at the border and warned migrants to stay away
Claimed this week that he is keeping criminals and Middle Easterners from entering the country illegally as part of a caravan
Later admitted he has no proof there are Middle Easterners in the caravan of migrants headed to the U.S. but said there ‘very well could be’
Pentagon is said to be finalizing a deployment to the border in response to Trump’s pledge to send in the troops
By FRANCESCA CHAMBERS
DAILYMAIL.COM
26 October 2018
President Trump says he’ll be ‘forced to play a much tougher hand’ if Democrats refuse to pass his initiatives to deter illegal immigration.
Trump in a Friday morning tweet said, ‘The United States has been spending Billions of Dollars a year on Illegal Immigration. This will not continue. Democrats must give us the votes to pass strong (but fair) laws. If not, we will be forced to play a much tougher hand.’
The president has been railing for days about a caravan of migrants who are headed toward the southern border who he says could be criminals or terrorists, whom he warned to ‘turnaround’ this week, because they’ll be denied entry into the United States.
He was said on Friday to be considering an executive order that would allow the U.S. to deny asylum seekers’ claims if they enter illegally as part of the caravan.
U.S. law permits foreigners who are fleeing persecution in their native countries to apply for asylum on U.S. soil. But Trump’s executive order would suspend this statue for Central Americans as a matter of ‘national security’ in response to his claims that the caravan could contain criminals and terrorists.
Department of Homeland Security Department Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said Thursday that ‘everything is on the table’ as she addressed the situation.
‘If they come here illegally with no legitimate reason to stay, they absolutely will be apprehended and removed immediately,’ she told Fox News. ‘They should be seeking refuge in Mexico. To ignore refuge and continue, in some cases, to come to the United States raises questions of what their real motives are.’
She said, ‘This caravan cannot come to the United States…They will not be allowed in. They will not be allowed to stay.
The Supreme Court eventually upheld a version of Trump’s travel ban, and DHS believes an order pertaining to the caravan would be upheld, too.
Trump claimed Thursday that asylum seekers’ claims would be immediately and unequivocally be denied at the border in a tweet warning the migrants to stay away.
‘To those in the Caravan, turnaround, we are not letting people into the United States illegally,’ he wrote. ‘Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!’
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