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Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will deploy the US military to guard the border with Mexico, adding: “That’s a big step.” Trump claims 'caravans' of migrants in Mexico mean US 'is being stolen' Read more The president was speaking to reporters at the White House, around a meeting with leaders of Baltic countries. “We cannot have people flowing into our country illegally, disappearing, and by the way never showing up for court.” At a subsequent press conference, Trump said: “We are preparing for the military to secure our border between Mexico and the United States. About 1,100 migrants, many from Honduras, have been marching along roadsides and train tracks in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Such “Stations of the Cross” caravans have been held in southern Mexico for at least the last five years. “[Mexico] did it because you really have to do it,” said Trump on Tuesday, adding: “If [the caravan] reaches our border our laws are so weak and so pathetic … it’s like we have no border. “We need to have a wall that’s about 700 to 800 miles” of the border, he told reporters on Tuesday. Though the spending bill was widely seen as the last major legislation to pass this year, it was reported on Tuesday that Trump has been discussing with House majority leader Kevin McCarthy a partial retreat from the terms of the bill. Trump has also repeated his call for the “nuclear option”, a change of Senate rules so a majority of 51 votes is needed to advance legislation instead of 60. One new measure the administration is pursuing would end safeguards that prevent the immediate deportation of children arrested at the border alone. The administration is also pushing Congress to terminate a 1997 court settlement that requires the government to release children from custody to parents, adult relatives or other caretakers as their cases proceed.