Donald Trump accuses Mexican forces of aiming weapons at American troops as he makes new threat to send armed soldiers to US-Mexico border
- White House adviser Kellyanne Conway says Trump ‘is just making clear, as he always has, that he has many different actions at his disposal’
US President Donald Trump made a new threat on Wednesday to send armed troops to the US-Mexico border, tweeting that “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border,” but he did not support the drug-smuggling claim.
He tweeted: “Better not happen again! We are now sending ARMED SOLDIERS to the Border. Mexico is not doing nearly enough in apprehending & returning!”
US troops are already at the border to help reduce illegal crossings.
White House adviser Kellyanne Conway said Trump “is just making clear, as he always has, that he has many different actions at his disposal” to try to stop what the administration calls a humanitarian crisis at the border.
Asked if Trump will, in fact, send additional troops to the border, Conway replied: “He may.”
Two US soldiers in a remote area of Texas recently were confronted by Mexican soldiers who thought the Americans had crossed into Mexico. The Mexican troops reportedly removed a weapon from one of the American soldiers.