PENTAGON — President Donald Trump says as many as 15,000 U.S. troops could go to the Mexican border to stop caravans of Central American migrants, many of whom are seeking asylum, from crossing into the United States. “It’s a dangerous group of people,” the president said of the migrants after earlier calling them “very bad thugs […]
Search and rescue crews may have located the wreckage of an Indonesian jetliner that crashed into the Java Sea just minutes after taking off from Jakarta early Monday morning. Military chief Hadi Tjahjanto said Wednesday that authorities “strongly believe” they have pinpointed the resting place of Lion Air Flight JT610, which disappeared from radar screens […]
U.S. President Donald Trump says he wants to deny citizenship to babies born in the United States to non-citizens and unauthorized immigrants. Trump said in an interview with the cable television news program “Axios on HBO” that he plans to terminate, by executive order, the current U.S. policy allowing birthright citizenship. “It’s in the process. […]
The Pentagon is deploying 5,200 troops along the U.S. border with Mexico to help agents deal with a caravan of Honduran migrants heading to the United States. “Border security is national security,” General Terrence O’Shaughnessy, head of U.S. Northern Command, told reporters Monday. He said the 5,200 soldiers will be in addition to the nearly […]