Trump Reveals the Lethal Authority U.S. Troops Have at Border

President Donald Trump revealed that U.S. troops are authorized to use lethal force at the southern border if they need to defend themselves, after speaking to service-members deployed around the world Thanksgiving morning.

“If they have to they’re going to use lethal force, I’ve given the order, I hope they don’t have to,” Trump said in response to a question on the matter. “You’re dealing with a minimum of 500 serious criminals, and I’m not going to let them be taken advantage of.”

The president dispatched nearly 6,000 U.S. troops to the border in recent weeks to bolster border enforcement. Trump justified the deployment by pointing at the advancing caravan of thousands of Central American would-be migrants who want to claim asylum. The caravan used violent tactics to break through legal ports of entry in Mexico, prompting alarm amongst U.S. authorities.

The Trump administration recently saw a similar scare of its own after the Department of Homeland Security noted that it had to temporarily close the busiest port of entry between the U.S. and Mexico Tuesday evening in order to reinforce barriers and harden the ports of entry.

DHS Secretary Nielsen noted in an announcement on Twitter at the time that the hardening was in direct response to threats from members of the migrant caravan who reportedly wanted to storm the port of entry en masse in order to overwhelm U.S. authorities and illegally seek refuge. (Read more from “Trump Reveals the Lethal Authority U.S. Troops Have at Border” HERE)

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