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Conservative political commentator Ann Coulter has suggested that the U.S. military should invade Mexico to stop Central American migrants seeking asylum in the U.S. from reaching the U.S. border.
Coulter made the comments on the October 26 edition of the The Ingraham Angle on Fox News. She told host Laura Ingraham that there were several options available to President Donald Trump for halting the migrant caravans which crossed into southern Mexico last week.
"There are many things the President can do besides build the wall himself, he is the Commander-in Chief," Coulter said in the segment, as reported by Media Matters. "The military can not really do anything on the side of the border. What are they going to do, shoot the invaders?
"But they could invade, they could go into yards in Mexico. We did not ask for Iraq, we did not ask for approval. Other than sitting on oil, most of these Middle Eastern countries, they're not going to kill Americans. "
Earlier this year, Coulter seemsingly endorsed the killing of Palestinians at the Gaza border by Israeli forces, suggesting that the US military should take a similarly violent approach to stopping migrants from entering the country.
"Can we do that?" she wrote on Twitter on May 14, commenting on New York Times Article titled "Israel Responds to a Rifle", Palestinian Authority said.
The caravan-which consists of approximately 7,000 migrants, according to the United States has been making its way through Mexico after setting off from Honduras several weeks ago. Currently, it is about 1,000 miles away from the closest U.S.-Mexico border crossing in McAllen, Texas, yet its destination remains unclear. Many of the migrants are seeking to escape violence and political instability in their home countries.
The trump administration has warned of a "crisis" at the border with the president calling on the caravan to turn around. Department of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen said that the U.S. was doing "everything we can" to protect its ports of entry to the southern border "and the people who work at them. We're waiting to see what the caravan's gonna do, what numbers are looking like, where they're headed, "Nielsen told Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Thursday.
Two officials told AFP on Thursday that 800 troops are expected to be deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border. When Nielsen was asked by MacCallum, she said, "We do not have any intention right now to shoot people.
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