The U.S. is sending thousands of additional troops to the border at President Trump's behest to thwart a caravan of migrants that has its sights set on America's doorstep.
Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan said Tuesday that 'several thousand' troops were being sent to the U.S.-Mexico border, joining a deployment of roughly 2,350 forces that are already stationed in southern states.
Trump confirmed that the forces are being sent in a Thursday morning tweet that referenced the wall he's attempting to build along much of the border to keep illegal immigrants out.
'More troops being sent to the Southern Border to stop the attempted Invasion of Illegals, through large Caravans, into our Country. We have stopped the previous Caravans, and we will stop these also. With a Wall it would be soooo much easier and less expensive. Being Built!' he said.
Later in the day House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith, a Democrat, said the total number was 3,500.
The U.S. is sending thousands of additional troops to the border at President Trump's behest to thwart a caravan of migrants that has its sights set on America's doorstep
Trump confirmed that the forces are being sent in a Thursday morning tweet that referenced the wall he's attempting to build along much of the border to keep illegal immigrants out
Trump said the deployment could be totally avoided if Democrats would give him permission to build a border wall
Migrants walk on a highway during their journey towards the United States, in Niltepec, Mexico last week as part of a caravan making its way to the United States
The deployment has cost an estimated $682 million already, a Joint Chiefs of Staff representative told Congress at a Tuesday House Armed Services hearing.
Department of Homeland Security officials are tracking three separate caravans with a combined 12,000 people among them.
Trump argued Thursday that the deployment could be totally avoided if Democrats would give him permission to build a border wall.
He dropped his offer to call the structure a fence or a physical barrier to satisfy their demands that he forgo his plans to build a wall from sea to shining sea along the southern border and noted in tweets that a 'WALL is a WALL' as he urged both sides to 'stop playing political games' in talks by calling it something else.
He declared in one of his morning tweets, 'The Wall is getting done one way or the other!' Repeating himself in another, Trump claimed, 'Construction has started and will not stop until it is finished.'
The U.S. president continued to rage for more than an hour, telling Republicans on a bipartisan panel tasked with coming to a border security arrangement to stop 'wasting their time' on the negotiations with his political opponents.
'I've got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don't expect much help!' he proclaimed.
President Trump went on a tangent about his border 'wall' in Thursday morning tweets
He noted that a ' WALL is a WALL' and urged both sides to stop 'playing political games' in negotiations
He claimed the border crisis is worse than Afghanistan, and he brought up Mexico's murder rate to prove it
Trump signaled that he was getting his information from Fox News, which he typically spends his morning watching
As the first day of talks among a bipartisan committee of negotiators did not produce the result he wanted, however, Trump raged on Twitter about the wall
Just this month, President Trump said Democrats could call his wall whatever want — even 'peaches' if they prefer — so long as he gets his money.
He was feeling less generous by Thursday morning. 'Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL!' he said.
As the first day of talks among a bipartisan committee of negotiators did not produce the result he wanted, however, Trump raged on Twitter about the wall and the Mexican murder rate while watching his favorite morning program.
'Large sections of WALL have already been built with much more either under construction or ready to go. Renovation of existing WALLS is also a very big part of the plan to finally, after many decades, properly Secure Our Border. The Wall is getting done one way or the other!' he tweeted.
Laying the brickwork for his case that the nation is facing an emergency at the border, Trump also claimed that Mexico's skyrocketing murder rate is contributing to illegal immigration in America and the death toll is higher that of Afghanistan.
'Very sadly, Murder cases in Mexico in 2018 rose 33% from 2017, to 33,341. This is a big contributor to the Humanitarian Crises taking place on our Southern Border and then spreading throughout our Country. Worse even than Afghanistan. Much caused by DRUGS. Wall is being built!' he said.
And just so it was clear what television show he was watching he tagged 'Fox & Friends' in a follow-up.
'With Murders up 33% in Mexico, a record, why wouldn't any sane person want to build a Wall! Construction has started and will not stop until it is finished,' he asserted.
He correctly asserted that the country recorded 33,341 homicides in 2018, but incorrectly stated the percent increase over the year before. While it was indeed the highest rate of homicides on record, Mexico recorded a 15 percent increase in murders and not the 33 percent that Trump claimed in his social media rant.
Trump was reacting to reports out of a bipartisan meeting on Capitol Hill that Democrats remain opposed to giving him a substantial amount of money for a border wall.
Democrats returned Wednesday to their claim that there is no money for the barrier in their opening offer to avert another government shutdown despite his warning that morning that are 'wasting their time' if they won't fund his barrier.
'If you're asking if there's any money for a border wall there is none,' Democratic Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard told reporters after the first meeting of House and Senate negotiators ended.
Trump said Thursday morning that he'd build the wall, anyway.
'Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee are wasting their time,' he stated. 'Democrats, despite all of the evidence, proof and Caravans coming, are not going to give money to build the DESPERATELY needed WALL. I've got you covered. Wall is already being built, I don't expect much help!'
Chairwoman Nita Lowey (center) and Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (right) made it clear there was no funding for President Trump's border wall in their opening offer
The 17-member bipartisan, bicameral panel held their first meeting to find a border security compromise
On Wednesday the 17-member bipartisan, bicameral panel held their first meeting to find a border security compromise under dueling threats: 1) a ticking clock that only gives them until Feb. 15 to come up with a plan that the president will sign to avoid another shutdown; and 2) increasingly aggressive warnings from Trump that he will tap into 'alternative' sources of revenue to build his wall if he fells that he must.
House Appropriations Chair Nita Lowey appeared to brush aside Trump's threats.
'I raised three children and now I have eight grand children and I think it's best way of dealing with them is with facts and figures instead of threats,' she said when asked about the president's demand.
Lowey did offer a ray of hope when it comes to compromise.
'Everything is on the table,' she said. 'Today was a starting point.'
She also said the lawmakers charged with coming up with a hail mary pass over the next 16 days may take a trip to the border as part of their work.
'We've been talking about maybe taking a trip to the border but there is not much time,' she said.
And while Democrats wouldn't commit to a wall, Lowey conceded more money would likely end up on the table than the $1.3 billion Democrats originally offered for border security.
'We will expand on the $1.6 billion for border security-related programs that House Democrats have already passed in the last few weeks,' she said.
But there was little enthusiasm for the $5.7 billion Trump was demanded for his border wall. Democrats argued money was limited and could be put to other uses.
'Within the limited funding available in the bill, we will be fighting for balanced investments across the Department's mission areas. And we will be pushing for a strong, but smart, border security posture, one that does not rely on costly physical barriers,' Roybal-Allard said.
It was that showdown over $1.6 billion versus $5.7 billion that led to the shutdown. If the panel can't come up with a compromise Trump will sign by Feb. 15, funding is likely to lapse again for the departments of Transportation, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Treasury, Commerce, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, State and Interior, as well as the IRS, National Science Foundation, FDA and EPA.
Republicans on the panel showed their support Wednesday for some type of border barrier to be used strategically.
Few lawmakers used the word 'wall' but talked about building barriers where it made strategic sense.
'All sides seem to agree that border security is important. That is a good start, but it cannot end there,' said Republican Sen. Richard Shelby in his opening remarks.
'Smart technology alone does not actually stop anyone from crossing into the U.S. illegally,' he noted as part of his argument for a border barrier. 'Our border patrol tells us that they need physical barriers to help them do their job. Not from coast to coast, but strategically placed where traffic is highest.'
He argued strategic barriers are part of a 'comprehensive solution.'
Republican Congressman Chuck Fleischmann did utter the word 'wall' but said he wanted one 'where barriers work' on the border.
The GOP pushed for lawmakers to focus on where they agree and argued portions of a border barrier are something both parties could back.
'People, technology and barrier and we've all voted for all three,' said Republican Sen. John Hoeven.
But Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar, whose district sits on the Texas-U.S. border, dismissed the idea a wall is effective.
'Give me $100. I'll buy you a ladder and we'll take care of that wall quickly,' he said.
Republican Sen. Richard Shelby suggested strategically placed border barriers would be a good compromise
President Donald Trump hamstrung Capitol Hill negotiators as they began the first round of talks with a bipartisan panel of lawmakers to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year
Trump said that the legislators 'are wasting their time' if their solution doesn't include a border wall. He allowed that they could refer to it alternatively as a physical barrier
But, before lawmakers met Wednesday afternoon, Trump put his demand on the table.
'If the committee of Republicans and Democrats now meeting on Border Security is not discussing or contemplating a Wall or Physical Barrier, they are Wasting their time!,' he tweeted Wednesday morning.
The 35-day shutdown, the longest in American history, ended Friday after Trump signed a bill to reopen the government for three weeks, backing down from his demand that Congress give him $5.7 billion for his border wall before federal agencies get back to work.
Polls show people chiefly blame Trump and Republicans for the shutdown.
Part of the agreement was the bipartisan panel of House and Senate lawmakers tasked with coming up with a border security plan both parties could support and Trump would sign.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who previously said there was no chance of Trump getting his wall, punted the issue to negotiators.
'I think a conference committee can reach a good result left to its own devices without interference from anybody else. I have confidence in the appropriators,' she told CNN Wednesday morning.
And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who pressured Trump last week to end the shutdown, warned the president against triggering another one or declaring a national emergency in order to get his wall.
When asked to describe a border security agreement he'd support, McConnell said: 'I'm for whatever works that would prevent the level of dysfunction we've seen on full display here the last month and also doesn't bring about a view on the president's part that he needs to declare a national emergency.'
Before negotiators met on Wednesday, Shelby was asked what would happen if the lawmakers came up with a plan that Trump would refuse to sign and a veto could be overridden.
'That'd be hard to do. Nothing is impossible,' he said.
White House press secretary Sarah Sanders warned Democrats on Monday afternoon that they will 'get virtually nothing' if they put Trump in the position of having to solve the border wall fight by declaring a national emergency.
'If they don't come back with a deal, that means Democrats get virtually nothing. That will make the president, and force him, to have to take executive action that does not give Democrats the things that they want,' Sanders said in her first press briefing of 2019.
She said of an immigration reform framework and spending deal, 'This is a perfect time and the table has been perfectly set by the president in order for a good deal to come together where everybody gets a little something they're looking for.'
Meanwhile, acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said on Sunday the president is willing to shut down the government again in three weeks in order to secure the border.
Negotiators have until Feb. 15 to come up with a compromise on border security
'Yeah I think he actually is. Keep in mind he's willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border. He does take this very seriously,' Mulvaney said Sunday on CBS' 'Face the Nation.'
Mulvaney refused to answer whether or not Trump would take less than the $5.7 billion he demanded as his original price to reopen the government - the amount he needs to build a border wall.
'This is not something where the president's married to a number, he's married to border security,' he said on 'Fox News Sunday.'
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