President Trump on Thursday warned members of the Central American migrant caravan that the military deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border will treat throwing a rock the same as a firearm attack.

“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,” Trump told reporters during a press conference at the White House Thursday evening.

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