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President Donald Trump issued a stark warning to Mexico and Texas’ Democrat Governor-elect Gina Hinojosa over reports of a migrant caravan heading toward the U.S. border, warning that there would be “no leniency.”
Hinojosa defeated incumbent Texas Governor Greg Abbott in last week’s midterm elections, becoming the state’s first Latina governor and the first Democrat to hold the office since 1995.
“With the perceived loss by the Republicans in the Midterms - I WAS NOT ON THE BALLOT- the INVASION of our Country is taking place again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday.
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“Huge CARAVANS are forming and beginning their illegal march through Mexico.”
The president appeared to be referring to reports that a caravan of around 1,500 migrants mostly from Central America had travelled to Mexico in the hopes that the Democrats’ success in midterm elections would mean a softening of Trump’s stringent border policies, as Reuters reported.
Trump added that he had warned Mexico to prevent migrants from entering the U.S., or else face tariffs being doubled.
He said that Mexico along with the “VERY LIBERAL NEW GOVERNOR OF TEXAS,” the U.S. Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been informed of his warning.
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