Donald Trump orders National Gaurd to patrol US-Mexico border

Asserting the situation had reached "a point of crisis", President Donald Trump signed a proclamation ordering the deployment of the National Guard to the US-Mexico border to fight illegal immigration.

"The lawlessness that continues at our southern border is fundamentally incompatible with the safety, security, and sovereignty of the American people," Mr Trump wrote in a memo authorising the move, adding that his administration had "no choice but to act".