Trump Concedes There’s ‘No Proof’ Terrorists Are Among Honduran Migrants
- Pence says Honduras accused Venezuela of financing caravan
- President is trying to make immigration central to election
A person sits in front of a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Tijuana, Mexico.
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President Donald Trump conceded there’s no evidence for his claim that Middle Eastern terrorists are among thousands of migrants traveling from Honduras toward the U.S. border, but blamed Venezuela and unidentified “leftists” for encouraging the so-called caravan.
Trump is trying to make immigration central to the midterm elections next month that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress. He’s expressed outrage about the group of several thousand migrants, which is slowly making its way north from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, and said in a tweet on Monday that the caravan included “unknown Middle Easterners.”