President Trump responded to criticism on Friday that he seemed to endorse U.S. troops shooting at rock-throwing immigrants on the Southwest border.
“If our soldiers or border patrol or ICE are going to be hit in the face with rocks, we’re going to arrest those people – that doesn’t mean shoot them,” he told reporters outside the White House. “But we’re going to arrest those people quickly and for a long period of time.”
Just one day earlier, when asked by a reporter if active duty soldiers being sent to the border with Mexico would fire on migrants seeking asylum, President Trump said he hoped not.
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