President Trump claims he might 'call up more military' to the US-Mexico border
Washington President Donald Trump told reporters during a roundtable event on Wednesday that he is"going to have to call up more military" to the southern border, adding to the administration's attempts to address a historic increase in the number of migrant apprehensions.
"I'm going to have to call up more military. Our military, don't forget, can't act like they would normally act because if they got a little rough, everybody would go crazy," Trump told reporters in San Antonio, Texas, a city with so many military bases in the area that it's been given the nickname"Military City, USA." "They have all these horrible laws that the Democrats won't change, they will not change them.
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