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## Video: President Trump Says U.S. Troops at Mexico Border Could Reach 15,000

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_Published 2018-10-31. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the number of military troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexican border could go as high as 15,000 as he draws a hard line on immigration in the lead-up to the midterm elections._


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## Transcript

I'm not fear mongering at all. Immigration's a very important subject. The Democrats have let immigration in our country get out of control with their horrible not allowing us to have any votes to get past this. We need Democrat votes to change the immigration laws. They haven't given us any votes, and I actually think That they will. As far as the caravan, which is very dangerous, you see what's been happening. As far as the caravan is concerned, our military is out. We have about 5, 000 8. We'll go up to anywhere between 10 and 15, 000 military personnel on top of Border Patrol, ICE, And everybody else at the border.

Nobody's coming in, we're not allowing people to come in. If you looked at what happened in Mexico two days ago, with the roughness of these people in the second caravan that's been forming. And also frankly in the first caravan. And now they have one forming in El Salvador. And we are thinking very seriously immediately stopping aid to those countries because frankly, they're doing nothing for the American people. Immigration is a very, very big and very dangerous, a really dangerous topic. And we're not gonna allow people to come into our country that don't have the well- being of our country in mind.

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