{"id":1477,"date":"2018-04-04T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2018-04-04T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T14:47:11","slug":"new-york-times-trump-plans-to-send-national-guard-to-the-mexican-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/2018\/04\/04\/new-york-times-trump-plans-to-send-national-guard-to-the-mexican-border\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: Trump Plans to Send National Guard to the Mexican Border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by: Colin Bunn<\/p>\n<p>New York Times<\/p>\n<header id=\"story-header\" class=\"story-header\">\n<div id=\"story-meta\" class=\"story-meta \">\n<h1 id=\"headline\" class=\"headline\">Trump Plans to Send National Guard to the Mexican Border<\/h1>\n<div class=\"story-translations\">\n<div class=\"story-translations-group\"><a class=\"story-translations-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/es\/2018\/04\/03\/trump-militares-frontera-migrantes\/?\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-meta-footer\" class=\"story-meta-footer\">\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\"><span class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a title=\"More Articles by JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/julie-hirschfeld-davis\"><span class=\"byline-author\">JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS<\/span><\/a><\/span>APRIL 3, 2018<\/p>\n<div class=\"story-meta-footer-sharetools\">\n<div id=\"sharetools-story-meta-footer\" class=\"sharetools theme-classic  sharetools-story-meta-footer  \" role=\"group\"><a class=\"visually-hidden skip-to-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-border-immigration-caravan.html#story-continues-1\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><span class=\"sharetools-label visually-hidden\">Share This Page<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"sharetools-menu\">\n<li class=\"sharetool facebook-sharetool\"><a><i 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class=\"vhs-plugin-new-controls-volume-slider-track\">\n<div class=\"vhs-plugin-new-controls-volume-slider-fill\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Video<\/span><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"headline\">Trump: Military Will Guard Mexico Border<\/h4>\n<div class=\"caption-video\">\n<div class=\"summary-credit\">\n<p class=\"summary\">President Trump, expressing his disdain for Nafta and Obama-era immigration policies, said he will send the military to guard the United States border with Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit video-credit\">By ASSOCIATED PRESS.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit photo-credit\">Photo by Doug Mills\/The New York Times.\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"video-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/us\/politics\/100000005832295\/trump-military-will-guard-mexico-border.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=us&amp;module=lede&amp;region=caption&amp;pgtype=article\">Watch in Times Video \u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharetools-video-container\">\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-tools-100000005832295\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-tools\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"sharetool embed-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"sharetool-text \">Embed<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-inline-100000005832295\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-inline\">\n<ul class=\"sharetools-menu\">\n<li class=\"sharetool facebook-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i><span class=\"sharetool-text visually-hidden\">Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"sharetool twitter-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i><span class=\"sharetool-text visually-hidden\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The White House said Tuesday night that President Trump planned to deploy the National Guard to the southern border to confront what it called a growing threat of illegal immigrants, drugs and crime from Central America after the president for the third consecutive day warned about the looming dangers of unchecked immigration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Mr. Trump\u2019s advisers said Monday that he was readying new legislation to block migrants and asylum seekers, including young unaccompanied children, from entering the United States, opening a new front in the immigration crackdown that he has pressed since taking office. But in remarks on Tuesday that caught some of his top advisers by surprise, he suggested the more drastic approach of sending in the military to do what immigration authorities could not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Speaking to reporters during a news conference with the presidents of three Baltic nations, Mr. Trump described existing immigration laws as lax and ineffective, and called for militarizing the border with Mexico to prevent an influx of Central American migrants he said were ready to stream across it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cWe have horrible, horrible and very unsafe laws in the United States,\u201d Mr. Trump said. \u201cWe are preparing for the military to secure our border between Mexico and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">While the president couched his idea as an urgent response to an onslaught at the nation\u2019s southern border, the numbers do not point to a crisis. Last year, the number of illegal immigrants caught at the border was the lowest since 1971,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2017-Dec\/BP%20Total%20Apps%20FY1925-FY2017.pdf\">said\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/documents\/2017-Dec\/BP%20Total%20Apps%20FY1925-FY2017.pdf\">the United States Border Patrol<\/a>. Still, Mr. Trump seized on what has become an annual seasonal uptick in Central American migrants making their way north to make his case.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"visually-hidden skip-to-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-border-immigration-caravan.html#story-continues-2\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"supplemental-1\" class=\"supplemental first\">\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\">\n<aside class=\"marginalia related-combined-coverage-marginalia marginalia-item nocontent robots-nocontent\" role=\"complementary\">\n<div class=\"nocontent robots-nocontent\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"module-heading\">RELATED COVERAGE<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article class=\"story theme-summary \">\n<div class=\"thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/04\/03\/world\/03mexico2-print\/03mexico2-print-thumbStandard-v3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\"><span class=\"title\">Trump\u2019s Immigration Tweets Followed by Policy Plans to Match<\/span>\u00a0APRIL 2, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article class=\"story theme-summary \">\n<div class=\"thumb\"><img decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2018\/04\/03\/world\/03mexico1\/03mexico1-thumbStandard-v3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-action-overlay\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body\">\n<h2 class=\"headline\"><span class=\"title\">Trump Transforms Immigrant Caravans in Mexico Into Cause C\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/span>\u00a0APRIL 2, 2018<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<aside class=\"marginalia comments-marginalia  selected-comment-marginalia\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"module-heading\"><i class=\"icon\"><\/i>RECENT COMMENTS<\/h2>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"comments-view\">\n<article class=\"comment\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"commenter\">Ann<\/h2>\n<p>12 minutes ago<\/header>\n<p class=\"comment-text\">Judging by the number of impassioned comments, the immigration issue is indeed one of the driving wedge issues in our country. But is it?&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"comment\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"commenter\">MGM<\/h2>\n<p>12 minutes ago<\/header>\n<p class=\"comment-text\">This is all coming from that bigoted, little twit Stephen Miller&#8230;.a dangerous man controlling a hapless president on this issue.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<article class=\"comment\">\n<header>\n<h2 class=\"commenter\">SUBHASHIS<\/h2>\n<p>13 minutes ago<\/header>\n<p class=\"comment-text\">I understand all the posts which are critical of Trump&#8217;s move.However, can someone enlighten me as to how US government can stem the flow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<ul class=\"comment-actions\">\n<li class=\"comment-count\">SEE ALL COMMENTS<\/li>\n<li class=\"comment-reply\">WRITE A COMMENT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/footer>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"supplemental-items\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story-continues-2\" class=\"story-interrupter\">\n<div id=\"FlexAd\" class=\"ad flex-ad nocontent robots-nocontent ad-loaded\">\n<div class=\"ad-header\">\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"visually-hidden skip-to-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-border-immigration-caravan.html#story-continues-3\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-ad-creative\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/29390238\/NYT\/us\/politics_8__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-body-supplemental\">\n<div class=\"story-body story-body-2\">\n<p id=\"story-continues-3\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">After the president\u2019s remarks, White House aides struggled for hours to decipher his intentions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Late in the day, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Mr. Trump had met with Jim Mattis, the secretary of defense, and members of the national security team to discuss his administration\u2019s strategy for dealing with \u201cthe growing influx of illegal immigration, drugs and violent gang members from Central America,\u201d a problem on which she said the president had initially been briefed last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">That strategy, she said, included mobilizing the National Guard \u2014 though Ms. Sanders did not say how many troops would be sent or when \u2014 and pressing Congress to close what she called \u201cloopholes\u201d in immigration laws. Also present at the meeting were Jeff Sessions, the attorney general; Kirstjen Nielsen, the secretary of homeland security; Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"promo media video embedded layout-large-horizontal \" role=\"group\">\n<div id=\"video_outer_position_embedded_100000005831658\" class=\"video-bind\">\n<div id=\"video_inner_position_embedded_100000005831658\" class=\"video-container nytd-player-container vhs-plugin-sharetools vhs-m\">\n<div class=\"nytd-player-poster\">\n<div class=\"vhs-player-cover-background vhs-article-cover\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"vhs-media-action-overlay vhs-article-cover\"><i class=\"vhs-icon-play vhs-cover-play-button\"><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"vhs-metadata-container\">\n<section class=\"vhs-metadata\"><span class=\"vhs-show-name\">INTERNATIONAL<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"vhs-byline\">By NEETI UPADHYE and DEBORAH ACOSTA<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"vhs-video-length\">1:27<\/span><\/section>\n<section class=\"vhs-video-title\">The Caravan That Provoked Trump<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"visually-hidden\">Video<\/span><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<h4 class=\"headline\">The Caravan That Provoked Trump<\/h4>\n<div class=\"caption-video\">\n<div class=\"summary-credit\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Most of the 1,200 migrants moving through Mexico toward the United States are from Honduras, a country plagued by violence and recent political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"credit video-credit\">By NEETI UPADHYE and DEBORAH ACOSTA on\u00a0<span class=\"visually-hidden\">Publish Date<\/span>April 3, 2018.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"credit photo-credit\">Photo by Jose Jesus Cortes\/Reuters.<\/span><a class=\"video-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/world\/americas\/100000005831658\/the-caravan-that-provoked-trump.html?action=click&amp;contentCollection=world&amp;module=embedded&amp;region=caption&amp;pgtype=article\">Watch in Times Video \u00bb<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"sharetools-video-container\">\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-tools-100000005831658\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-tools\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"sharetool embed-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"sharetool-text \">Embed<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"sharetools-video-inline-100000005831658\" class=\"sharetools sharetools-video-inline\">\n<ul class=\"sharetools-menu\">\n<li class=\"sharetool facebook-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i><span class=\"sharetool-text visually-hidden\">Share<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"sharetool twitter-sharetool\"><a><i class=\"icon sprite-icon\"><\/i><span class=\"sharetool-text visually-hidden\">Tweet<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Mr. Trump first began raising new dangers posed by immigration in a series of confusing tweets and public statements that started Sunday and continued on Monday. That prompted White House officials to organize a conference call on Monday afternoon to outline a detailed legislative push they said the president was starting for the new immigration restrictions. Deploying the National Guard was not mentioned during the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The announcements on Monday and Tuesday appeared to be more about political messaging than practical action. Stung by a backlash from his conservative supporters over his embrace of a trillion-dollar-plus spending measure that did not fund his promised border wall, and lacking a legislative initiative to champion with the approach of midterm congressional elections this fall, Mr. Trump has reverted to the aggressive anti-immigration messaging that powered his presidential campaign and has defined his first year in office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Immigration advocates denounced Mr. Trump\u2019s announcement as a political ploy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cHe cannot get funding for his wall, so instead he irresponsibly misuses our military to save face,\u201d Kevin Appleby, the senior director of international migration policy at the Center for Migration Studies of New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Others said Mr. Trump\u2019s sudden declaration was merely an instance of a now-familiar pattern wherein the president reacts angrily to something he sees in the news \u2014 in this case, reports of a large group of migrants from Honduras traveling through Mexico with hopes of reaching the United States \u2014 and seeks to use it as a cudgel against his political opponents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cSome of it is just the guy at the end of the bar yelling his opinions \u2014 his gut reaction is to say we\u2019ve got to send the military,\u201d said Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, which advocates slashing immigration levels. \u201cBut there may also be an element here of political messaging \u2014 and a desire to create problems in November for Democratic candidates who have refused to embrace his policies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-4\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Whatever Mr. Trump\u2019s motivation, the president floated the idea after days of public stewing about the potential for the group of Honduran migrants to pour into the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cWe have very bad laws for our border, and we are going to be doing some things \u2014 I\u2019ve been speaking with General Mattis \u2014 we\u2019re going to be doing things militarily,\u201d Mr. Trump said Tuesday morning, seated beside the defense secretary at the meeting with Baltic presidents. \u201cUntil we can have a wall and proper security, we\u2019re going to be guarding our border with the military. That\u2019s a big step. We really haven\u2019t done that before, or certainly not very much before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The caravan has been a popular topic on Fox News \u2014 the president\u2019s favorite news network \u2014 and Mr. Trump\u2019s aides have argued that weak immigration policies were luring the migrants to the United States from Central America.<\/p>\n<div id=\"newsletter-promo\" class=\"newsletter-signup variant-1-hidden \">\n<h2 id=\"newsletter-promo-heading\" class=\"visually-hidden\">Newsletter Sign Up<\/h2>\n<p><a class=\"visually-hidden skip-to-text-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/04\/03\/us\/politics\/trump-border-immigration-caravan.html#continues-post-newsletter\">Continue reading the main story<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"headline\">Breaking News Emails<\/h3>\n<p class=\"summary\">Sign up to receive an email from The New York Times as soon as important news breaks around the world.<\/p>\n<form class=\"newsletter-form\" method=\"post\" name=\"regilite\">\n<div class=\"control input-control\">\n<div class=\"form-errors\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-container\"><button id=\"submit-button\" class=\"button submit-button\" type=\"submit\">Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"control checkbox-control\">\n<div class=\"field-container\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"label-container\"><label class=\"checkbox-label\" for=\"special-offers\">You agree to receive occasional updates and special offers for The New York Times&#8217;s products and services.<\/label><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"captcha-container\" class=\"g-recaptcha\">\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/form>\n<div class=\"messages\"><\/div>\n<ul class=\"footer\">\n<li class=\"privacy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/privacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PRIVACY POLICY<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"contact\">OPT OUT OR\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/help\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CONTACT US<\/a>\u00a0ANYTIME<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"#continues-post-newsletter\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cThe big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our \u2018Weak Laws\u2019 Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/981121409807155200\">he\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/981121409807155200\">posted Tuesday on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cCash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Later, Mr. Trump claimed credit for having pressured Mexican officials during a conversation on Monday to block the group from approaching the United States, in part by threatening to rip up the North American Free Trade Agreement if they refused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cI\u2019ve just heard that the caravan coming up from Honduras is broken up, and Mexico did that,\u201d he said during his meeting with the Baltic leaders. \u201cAnd they did it because, frankly, I said, \u2018You really have to do it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">A White House official said later that Mr. Trump had not, in fact, spoken with President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto of Mexico on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">While the active-duty military is generally barred by law from carrying out domestic law enforcement functions, such as apprehending people at the border, previous presidents have deployed National Guard troops to act in support roles on the border with Mexico. President Barack Obama sent 1,200 in 2010 and President George W. Bush dispatched 6,000 in 2006, while governors of border states have done the same when faced with large inflows from the south.<\/p>\n<p id=\"story-continues-5\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Mr. Trump has spoken before about launching a military operation to police the border, only to have his aides walk back the remarks amid a backlash from members of his administration and officials in Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"button comments-button  theme-speech-bubble-large\"><i class=\"icon\"><span class=\"button-text\"><span class=\"count\">3059<\/span><span class=\"units\">COMMENTS<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/button><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Last February, he called his immigration crackdown \u201ca military operation,\u201d prompting Rex W. Tillerson, then the secretary of state, and Mr. Kelly, then the homeland security secretary, who were visiting Mexico at the time, to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/23\/world\/americas\/john-kelly-rex-tillerson-mexico.html\">push back vigorously<\/a>. They told their Mexican counterparts and reporters that the American president did not, in fact, plan to use the military to hunt down and deport unauthorized immigrants. The White House later insisted that Mr. Trump had meant the word \u201cmilitary\u201d only as an adjective.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">On Tuesday, though, the president appeared convinced that American troops were needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">\u201cI think it\u2019s something we have to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"addenda\" class=\"addenda\">\n<div class=\"story-addendum story-content theme-correction\"><strong>Correction: April 4, 2018\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAn earlier version of this article misstated part of the immigration strategy described by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. 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