President Trump suggested shooting migrants in the legs in order to slow them down after they crossed the southern border, during a March meeting in which he called for a shutdown of the entire US-Mexico border, The New York Times reports
Citing interviews with more than a dozen White House and administration officials directly involved, the Times -- in an excerpt from the book"Border Wars: Inside Trump's Assault on Immigration" -- reported that Trump had moved on from the idea by the end of what the Times described as a"frenzied week of presidential rages.
"All you care about is your friends in Mexico," the President responded, people in the room told the Times."I've had it. I want it done at noon tomorrow."White House advisers persuaded Trump to extend the deadline to the following Friday, pushing Mexican officials to apprehend more migrants and urging Republican lawmakers and Chamber of Commerce officials to convey to Trump the negative repercussions of closing the border, the Times reported.
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