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Donald Trump threatens to send troops, cancel trade deal to stop migrant caravan

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Mexico City/Guatemala City | President Donald Trump threatened on Friday (AEST) to scrap a crucial trade deal and send troops to the US southern border in response to a large caravan of Central American immigrants heading toward the United States.

In a series of tweets, Mr Trump said that if Mexico was incapable of stopping the immigrants, he would "call up the US Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!"

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