TUPELO, Miss | The Latest: Trump asks why moms would let kids near tear gas
TUPELO, Miss. — The Latest on President Donald Trump in Mississippi (all times local):
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President Donald Trump is defending his government’s use of tear gas on women and children in a group of Central American migrants that included some who tried to storm the border in Tijuana over the weekend.
At a roundtable in Mississippi on Monday, Trump asked why mothers had put themselves and their children in harm’s way.