Wednesday Morning Briefing: Trump weighs authorizing U.S. troops to medically screen migrants
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November 21, 2018
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Exclusive: President Donald Trump’s administration is consideringgiving U.S. troops on the border with Mexico the authority to carry out medical screening of migrants, officials told Reuters. The proposal, which is still in draft form and circulating within the administration, would involve the military in screenings for things like illness and injury only if U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency personnel were overwhelmed and unable to do so on their own, the officials said.
Commentary:Two weeks before a landmark meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping at the G20 in Argentina – and just days after Trump said a list of 140 trade concessions offered by Beijing was “not acceptable to me yet” – the world’s two largest economies are now more at loggerheads than ever, writes Reuters global affairs columnist Peter Apps.
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