Trump vows to arrest caravan migrants who attack military, border agents

By Anna Giaritelli

Published November 2, 2018 8:50pm ET

Trump vows to arrest caravan migrants who attack military, border agents — Migrants from El Salvador start on their way to the United States, in San Salvador, El Salvador, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018. A third group of migrants from El Salvador had already made it to Guatemala, and on Wednesday a fourth group of about 700 Salvadorans set out from the capital, San Salvador, with plans to walk to the U.S. border, 1,500 miles away. | (AP Photo/Diana Ulloa)

President Trump on Friday walked back an earlier comment that troops deployed to the U.S.-Mexico border would treat rock-throwing
by members of the migrant caravan as

shooting.

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