No, they won’t have to fire. What I don’t want is: I don’t want these people throwing rocks…,” Trump told reporters at the White House when asked whether he was okay with the military firing on the caravan.
“What they did to the Mexican military is a disgrace. They hit them with rocks — some were very seriously injured. And they were throwing rocks in their face. “They do that with us, they’re going to be arrested… That doesn’t mean shoot them. But, we’re going to arrest those people quickly and for a long period of time,” Trump said.
The president insisted the changes he was making on asylum seekers through executive orders was legal. “It is the most ridiculous system in the world. It’s obsolete, but that’s not the problem. The problem is it’s a stupid system. It doesn’t work, and the Democrats and the Republicans should change it immediately.”