Donald Trump: Trump threatens to send military and close the border as migrants head to Mexico

WASHINGTON / GUATEMALA: President Donald Trump threatened Thursday to deploy the army and close the southern US border if Mexico did not stop a caravan of North American migrants heading north, thus increasing the risk of huge disruption of trade.

Extending over nearly 3,200 km (3,000 km), the US-Mexico border is one of the busiest in the world. It treats thousands of commuters daily and a good deal of the roughly $ 500 billion in annual trade between Mexico and the United States.

"I must, in the strongest terms, ask Mexico to put an end to this attack – and if it is impossible to do so, I will call on the government. US Army and CLOSE OUR SOUTH FRONTIER! " Trump wrote on Twitter.

Several thousand Honduran migrants crossed the Guatemalan border into Guatemala, and some tried to travel to Mexico on Thursday, local media reported. Some hope to end up entering the United States to escape violence and poverty.

The Mexican government stated that it had sought help from the UN refugee agency to process migrants seeking refugee status on Mexico's southern border one day. before the visit of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to Mexico City.

On Friday, Pompeo will meet officials, including incumbent President Enrique Pena Nieto, Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray, and the appointed Foreign Minister, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, Mexican Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Lopez Obrador, who will take up his duties in December, said Thursday in Saltillo, in the north of the city, that he was convinced that an "agreement can be reached" on the problem of migration .

"We are going to take care of our relations with the American government," he said. "It's very important to have a relationship of friendship."