President Trump is preparing to send up to 1,000 active-duty Army troops to the U.S.-Mexico border and is reportedly considering an executive order to ban the caravan of Central American migrants from entering the United States, effectively shutting down the border.
Under the plan, all migrants would be blocked, even those seeking asylum. Under U.S. law, foreigners can claim they are fleeing persecution in their home countries to apply for asylum. They are held and eventually receive a hearing. But Trump’s move would nix that under the name of “national security,” and they would simply be turned away.
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