Donald Trump threatens to send more soldiers and even to close the border with Mexico for a new caravan of migrants

President of the United States, Donald Trump, threatened again Wednesday to close part of the Mexican border and to deploy more soldiers in the border areain front of a new caravan of migrants heading for their country.

"A very large caravan of more than 20,000 people started in Mexico, but it has been reduced, but it continues to arrive. Mexico must stop rest otherwise we will have to close this section of the border and call the army", threatened Trump on Twitter.

The president also wrote that Mexican soldiers "recently released weapons" against US National Guard troops, "which is probably a distraction tactic for drug traffickers on the border."

"Better not to reproduce! Now, we will send armed soldiers to the border", badured the president from his social networks.

The incident mentioned by Trump occurred on April 13 in a remote area of ​​Texas, while Two US soldiers were confronted by Mexican soldiers who thought their counterparts had entered Mexico, according to the US Army.

The Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed the information, including the fact that the episode was taking place in the United States, but played down the situation, saying that "this type of incident is common" and that both countries have good relations and good communication.

The number of undocumented immigrants crossing the border between Mexico and the United States has increased in recent months to record levels in a decade. The majority of migrants are unaccompanied families or children fleeing political or criminal violence and poverty Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador.

Last February, Trump declared a "national emergency" at the southern border, in order to obtain funding to extend an existing wall for years in some parts of the Mexican border, but failed to stop illegal immigrants.

At the end of last week, the agents had arrested since October more than 414,000 people in this region, against 396,579 seizures between October 2017 and September 2018.

United States has already deployed some 6,000 troops to the Mexican border, between serving soldiers and National Guard reservists, because of Trump's willingness to show firmness before the arrival of several caravans of undocumented immigrants last year.