As a new book details his efforts to stop illegal immigration, President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday he did not propose lining the Mexican border with a moat filled with snakes and alligators.
USA TODAYPresident Donald Trump walks with Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen during an April visit to the border.WASHINGTON –
"I may be tough on Border Security, but not that tough," the president added."The press has gone Crazy. Fake News!" The book says that, in addition to closing the entire southern border, Trump at one point suggested radical and even violent ways to stop illegal crossings – including the snake-and-alligator-filled moat as well as shooting migrants in the legs.
The authors, New York Times reporters Michael D. Shear and Julie Hirschfeld Davis, also write that Trump backed off his public proposal that border guards shoot rock-throwing migrants because staff members told them that would be illegal.
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