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Administration has made very difficult by saying you have to go to very specific places, migrants don't know where to go. a very confusing thing. when you add putting thousands of troops on the border, militarizing the southern border it is a very dangerous thing. shannon: they cannot take on law enforcement activity at all. they work in support capacity. part of the lawsuit you are supporting from hunter and migrants representing their children on the way here, you say this but the lawsuit says this, trump professed and enacted policy towards thousands of caravan are seeking asylum in the uni...

Considered that a midterm gift, a winning issue a president could make as his closing argument, something he would talk about endlessly and justifiably. but that is not what this president is doing. president trump mentioned the economy today but almost in passing. in fact, he said, and i'm quoting, sometimes it is not as exciting to talk about the economy because we have a lot of other things to talk about, unquote. by other things, he means things that might scare voters, he means talking about migrants and what he calls an invasion. >> at this moment large, well organized caravans of migran...

From the closest us border crossing as a threat to security. ordering military to the border. unless granted special powers they will be used in only a support capacity. but the president doesn't mention that. he continues to portray this caravan of men, women, and children as a caravan overrun by dangerous criminals, possibly even isis members. >> these are tough people. these are not angels. these are not little i think a gels. these are tough people. and we are not letting them into our country. >> of course, in any large group of several thousand people there are going to be people with cr...

And has been dedicating virtually all of his public energy, his time, his tweets to pushing this idea that there is a crisis and an invasion at the border. he's even gone so far as to suggest that the u.s. troops that he's sending to the border in a support capacity should greet rocks with guns. >> anybody throwing stones, rocks, like they did to mexico and the mexican military, mexican police, where they badly hurt police and soldiers of mexico, we will consider that a firearm. because there's not much difference. when you get hit in the face with a rock, which as you know, it was very violen...

It is u.s. military rules of engagement that this is not allowed. is the white house answer on that that the president disagrees with that assessment or that the president is intending to instruct the military to disregard the rules of engagement? >> that's a very good question. it is not clear what the white house's official position on this. the president often says these things without having gone through some kind of consultation with his staff. i would also point out that based on our reporting this week, the people going to the border from the military are not going to engage with the mi...