OXEN HILL, Md.—President Donald Trump slammed left-wing politicians for sending the American military abroad instead of protecting the southern border.
“After years of politicians using our military to defend foreign borders while leaving our country defenseless, helpless, we deployed a group of people, active duty troops, to defend our border and repel the invasion of our country,” Trump said on Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside of Washington, D.C.
He called illegal immigration an “invasion,” adding that his first term had “great” deportation numbers, but his second term has topped them.
“We’ve never had numbers like this,” he said. “We’ve done it all in four weeks.”
Trump said that on Day One, he ended “catch and release” at the border, reinstated the Remain in Mexico policy, and ended birthright…
