President Donald Trump has sought to tie Democrats to border issues ahead of next month's Midterm elections. | Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images Immigration Trump blames Mexico and Democrats for migrant caravan

President Donald Trump blamed the Mexican police and military, as well as Democrats in the United States, for failing to block a caravan of migrants trekking to the southern U.S. border, labeling it a “National Emergy” [sic] in a series of tweets on Monday.

“Sadly, it looks like Mexico’s Police and Military are unable to stop the Caravan heading to the Southern Border of the United States. Criminals and unknown Middle Easterners are mixed in. I have alerted Border Patrol and Military that this is a National Emergy. Must change laws!” he wrote on Twitter Monday.


The group, which he claimed includes “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners,” has reportedly mushroomed to 5,000 strong, and is pushing onward to the U.S., despite warnings from Mexico and Washington to go through legal immigration channels. Many of the Central American migrants are fleeing gang violence and poverty.

The president offered no evidence to support his claim that the caravan includes migrants of Middle Eastern descent.

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Trump also pointed a finger at Democrats, accusing them once again of being weak on immigration and border security. The president has sought to tie Democrats to border issues ahead of next month's midterm elections.

“Every time you see a Caravan, or people illegally coming, or attempting to come, into our Country illegally, think of and blame the Democrats for not giving us the votes to change our pathetic Immigration Laws! Remember the Midterms! So unfair to those who come in legally,” he wrote in second tweet.

Then Trump again threatened to withhold aid to countries for allowing their citizens to migrate to the U.S.

“Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador were not able to do the job of stopping people from leaving their country and coming illegally to the U.S. We will now begin cutting off, or substantially reducing, the massive foreign aid routinely given to them,” he wrote on Twitter.

The growing caravan has reportedly pushed deeper into Mexico in recent days, despite efforts by the Mexican government to urge the migrants into legal immigration pathways.