Trump accused of stoking immigration fears by sending 5,200 troops to border

• Critics allege abuse of military to push ‘anti-immigrant agenda’
• Trump tweets ‘our Military is waiting for you!’ before midterms

Donald Trump is to deploy more than 5,200 troops to the border with Mexico in what a rights organisation described as an abuse of the military to “further his anti-immigrant agenda of fear and division”.

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