While traveling to Mississippi to rally for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in a tight Senate race, President Donald Trump on Monday got pegged with repeated questions about how law enforcement has been handling migrants near the southern U. S. border.…
While traveling to Mississippi to rally for Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith in a tight Senate race, President Donald Trump on Monday got pegged with repeated questions about how law enforcement has been handling migrants near the southern U. S. border. Answering reporters’ questions on Nov. 26, Trump defended tear gassing migrants at the border, when a group of migrants had reportedly rushed the border on Nov. 25. The decision to unleash tear gas upon the migrants, among them women and children, was met with fierce backlash.
“They were being rushed by some very tough people and they used tear gas,” Trump said Monday per CBS News. “Here’s the bottom line: Nobody is coming into our country unless they come in legally.” The White House did not immediately respond to Elite Daily’s request for additional comment on Trump’s statement. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officials had responded to a group of migrants that they said had attempted to cross the border illegally and attacking agents.
“Over 1,000 individuals who were part of the so-called caravan attempted to cross illegally into the U. S.,” and allegedly assaulted U. S. officials, said the CBP in a statement provided to Elite Daily by email Tuesday.
