President Donald Trump said that if any of the immigrants in the caravan moving toward the U.S. border throws rocks or stones at U.S. troops they would “consider it a firearm” and will be authorized to defend themselves using lethal weapons, Newsweek reported.
“I hope there won’t be that, but I will tell you this—anybody throwing rocks…we will consider that a firearm because there’s not much difference when you get hit in the face with a rock,” Trump said.
President Trump has been feeding the public fear constantly, calling the immigrant caravan an “invasion,” in spite of numbers dropping dramatically over the last few days.
Trump had referred to a violent clash between migrants and Mexican federal police at the Mexico-Guatemala border on Sunday.
“They’re throwing rocks viciously and violently, we’re not going to put up with that,” Trump said. “They want to throw rocks at our military, our military fights back. I told them to consider it a rifle.”
Trump tweeted about the same incident on Wednesday.
“The Caravans are made up of some very tough fighters and people,” he wrote on the social media network. “Fought back hard and viciously against Mexico at Northern Border before breaking through. Mexican soldiers hurt, were unable, or unwilling to stop Caravan. Should stop them before they reach our Border, but won’t!”
“The endemic abuse of our asylum system makes a mockery of our immigration and displacing legitimate asylum seekers and there are legitimate asylum seekers,” he said.
Trump added that he would sign an executive order next week limiting the way in which the U.S. accepts asylum seekers.
“My administration is finalizing a plan to end the rampant abuse of our asylum system,” Trump said. “Under this plan, the illegal aliens will no longer get a free pass into the country by lodging meritless claims in seeking asylum. Migrants seeking asylum will have to present themselves lawfully at a port of entry.”
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