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Instead, Yunes offered to take the migrants to another town in Veracruz until the water problem in Mexico City was resolved.
"I want to make an offer to the migrants who accept my invitation to go to a city of Veracruz during the resolution of this problem" and who has the conditions to accommodate them, he said.
By sending troops to the border, President Trump told the military that if they were confronted with migrants who were throwing stones, they should react as if these stones were "rifles" – a statement that he then sent back .
"It 's pure ignorance for him to think so," said Marta Cuellos, a 40 – year – old native of Tegucigalpa, the Honduran capital. "A rock is not the same as a rifle."
Most of the people traveling with the caravans are peaceful and the migrants who go Friday in the state of Oaxaca, in the south of the country, declared that they were not looking for problems.
"We are not killers," said Stephany Lopez, 21, from El Salvador. "We just want to work for a few years and after that, he can deport us if he wants."
Lopez noted that the president's mother, born in Scotland, was an immigrant.
"He should think of us as equals – immigrants built this country," she said.
On the US side of the border, in southern Texas, the response to troop deployment has been mixed.
"We do not need the army here," said Felix Rodriguez, a Vietnam veteran. "Our men and women in uniform are used recklessly."
Rusty Monsees, who lives in the border town of Brownsville, said he was constantly seeing immigrants cross the Rio Grande to rejoin his property.
"If I were in its place, I would bring all the troops I could find," said Monsees about Trump.
When asked what he would say to critics who argue that the deployment is a waste of taxpayer money, he replied, "They do not live here."
Kalhan Rosenblatt and the Associated Press contributed.
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