五角大樓考慮向南部邊境派出部隊
The Pentagon is considering sending hundreds of troops to the southern border after President Donald Trump reiterated Thursday the military would be used to prevent a caravan of Central American migrants from entering the United States.
A U.S. official tells VOA the number of troops provided will depend on what capabilities are requested from the Department of Homeland Security. The troops would support border patrol agents. More than two thousand National Guard troops have already been deployed to the area.
President Trump has referred to the caravan of migrants, which is more than a 1,600 kilometers from the closest U.S. border, as a "national emergency."
"I am bringing out the military for this National Emergency. They will be stopped!," Trump wrote in a post on Twitter earlier Thursday. Trump also agreed with a border patrol labor union official that Democrats are to blame for migrants seeking refuge in the U.S.
Trump has blasted Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala for not stopping their citizens from departing for the U.S. He said Monday he would begin cutting off or reducing foreign aid to those countries and threatened last week to use military troops to close the border.美國國防部正在考慮向南部邊境派遣數百名士兵。之前特朗普總統週四重申將讓軍方阻止來自中美洲的移民大軍進入美國。
一名美國官員告訴美國之音，派遣的部隊人數將取決於國土安全部所要求提供的力量。部隊將爲邊防巡邏人員提供支持。目前已有兩千多名國民警衛隊員部署到該地區。
特朗普總統把南美移民大軍的情況列爲“國家緊急狀態”，他們離最近的美國邊境有1600多公里。
特朗普週四早些時候在推特上發文說：“我要爲這場全國緊急狀態派出軍隊。他們會被阻攔！”特朗普總統還同意邊境巡邏工會官員的意見，就是民主黨要爲發生這些移民前來美國尋求庇護的事件負責。
特朗普總統還嚴厲批評洪都拉斯、薩爾瓦多和危地馬拉這些國家沒有阻止他們的公民前往美國。特朗普週一表示，他將開始切斷或減少對這些國家的外援，並於上週威脅將調動軍隊關閉邊境。
