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Trump says he has requested technology to detect drug and weapons transfers across the border, more border agents, immigration judges, more bed space for immigrants, and $5.7-billion for a barrier.

President Donald Trump and his officials persist in promoting the discredited notion that terror suspects are pouring into the U.S. from Mexico by the thousands.
Despite their portrayal of Mexico as a teeming portal for terrorists, the State Department issued a report in September finding “no credible evidence indicating that international terrorist groups have established bases in Mexico, worked with Mexican drug cartels or sent operatives via Mexico into the United States.”

Approximately 500 migrants who tried to "violently" cross the United States border will be deported by Mexican officials, according to Reuters. Tear gas was deployed after US border patrol agents were hit with projectiles thrown by migrants who also broke the border fence.

President Trump moved the ball of perception about stopping illegal immigration in a most notable fashion. On November 22, Thanksgiving Day, the American president was interviewed after his holiday phone call to the military, and discussed the authorization of the use of lethal force against immigrants in the caravans who try to forcibly enter the United States’ territory (points of emphasis added):

President Trump said that he has authorized American troops on the US-Mexico border to "use lethal force" if necessary to protect Customs and Border Protection personnel from migrants if they engage in violence.

WASHINGTON  — Since President Donald Trump first directed the outrage of his supporters at a Central American migrant caravan making its way towards the United States a little over a week ago, his plan to deploy between 5,200 and 15,000 active-duty U.S. soldiers to the border has provoked mixed reactions within the United States.

Hundreds of angry migrants hurled rocks at the Mexican border and argued with the guards for hours until they broke through the customs gate at the Guatemalan border town of Tecun while Mexican police used tear gas and rubber bullets against them.

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'The March of the Migrants' includes more than 1300 Honduran men, women and children who have organized through social media to trek north to seek asylum in Mexico and the US.  The media reports that lack of jobs, poverty and violence are motivating the migrants headed for the US border. 

The ranch owner has has repeatedly warned the government not to leave long stretches of the southwest border secured by nothing more than a barbed-wire fence. [In spite of brave talk in Washington DC about stopping illegal immigration, the government has done nothing to stop this armed invasion. Why do we have soldiers in over a hundred countries in the world but none at the Chilton ranch?]