TRUMP THREATENS TO CLOSE PERMANENTLY
THOUSANDS MORE MARCH TOWARD USA
'We will close the border permanently if need be': Trump threatens decisive action unless Mexico deports caravan migrants as hundreds storm border and officers fire tear gas and rubber bullets as 'rocks and bottles' rain down on them
- President Trump threatens to shut U.S. border with Mexico permanently if migrant caravan is not deported
- He called on Congress to fund his border wall, declaring that the caravan is 'not coming into the USA'
- Migrants threw rocks and bottles that hit U.S. Border Patrol agents on Sunday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry
- Border Patrol chief Carla Provost, told the Fox News Channel that 'our agents were being assaulted'
- Officers responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of people as they neared the border
- Forty-two made it across and were arrested, according to the chief border agent on the scene
- He said on CNN that the mass of humanity are mostly economic migrants, not asylum-seekers
- Tensions prompted U.S. officials to close the crossing between Tijuana and San Diego on Sunday
- Trump's tweeted ultimatum played on TV screens Monday alongside images of screaming, coughing children
- Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said she would not put up with the 'lawlessness'
- Mexico vowed Sunday to deport about 500 who tried to 'violently' and 'illegally' cross the border
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