Trump further stokes immigration fears by saying he'll send 15,000 troops to border

• Announcement comes days before US midterm elections
  
• ‘We’ll go up to anywhere between 10 and 15,000’

Donald Trump has said he is prepared to send as many as 15,000 troops to the US-Mexican border to head off a caravan of Central American migrants, a notion described by rights activists as “a racist ploy”.

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