'Stranger things have happened', says Trump on Mexican cartels

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'Stranger things have happened', says Trump on Mexican cartels

File photo: US President Donald Trump (Picture credit: AP)

WASHINGTON DC: US President Donald Trump on Tuesday while signing executive orders at his Oval Office said that he may think about ordering

US special forces

into Mexico to take out cartels.
"Could happen, stranger things have happened," Trump said.
Trump took executive action on the names of US landmarks, including renaming Denali and the Gulf of Mexico, a move that his White House said will "honour

American greatness

," CNN reported.
Trump's executive action to immediately end the use of an app that facilitated the legal entry of migrants to the United States left many waiting at the Mexico-US border in disillusion and feeling defeated.

Trump said his

foreign policy

was simple, to keep the US safe.
"My priority on foreign policy is going to be, to keep America safe. Very simple," he said.
A statement by Trump's office said, "The privilege of United States citizenship is a priceless and profound gift," expounding on his stance on border issue.
The

Fourteenth Amendment

has always excluded from

birthright citizenship

persons who were born in the United States but not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the statement said.
Among the categories of individuals born in the US and not subject to the jurisdiction thereof, the privilege of United States citizenship does not automatically extend to persons born in the United States: when that person's mother was unlawfully present in the United States and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, or when that person's mother's presence in the United States at the time of said person's birth was lawful but temporary (such as, but not limited to, visiting the United States under the auspices of the Visa Waiver Program or visiting on a student, work, or tourist visa) and the father was not a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident at the time of said person's birth, as per a statement.

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