Trump snaps back at claim he wanted alligators to stop immigrants

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied a US media report that he proposed extreme measures, including alligator-filled trenches, to stop migrants on Mexican border.

" press is trying to sell fact that I wanted a Moot stuffed with alligators and snakes, with an electrified fence and sharp spikes on top, at our Sourn Border," Trump tweeted, later correcting spelling to read "Moat." "I may be tough on Border Security, but t that tough. press has gone Crazy. Fake News!" Trump wrote.

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He was responding to a New York Times report detailing what was said to be Trump's frustration with laws restricting what he can do to stop migrants. Trump, Times reported, discussed using potentially deadly reptiles and also spiked fences. He reportedly suggested allowing soldiers to shoot illegal border crossers in legs after being told it was t permitted to use deadly force.

Trump has made a clampdown on both illegal and legal immigration one of keystones of his nationalist "America First" presidency. Undocumented crossings of Mexican border have dropped sharply.

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Electrified border wall

US President Donald Trump is so impatient to stop immigration in United States that he suggested border wall be electrified with spikes on top that could pierce human flesh, and proposed that it should be fortified with a "water-filled trench" with "snakes or alligators", during a March meeting with White House advisors in Oval Office, New York Times reported.

He also asked his advisors to shut down entire 2,000-mile border with Mexico by on next day. Trump also advised that migrants be shot in ir legs.

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(With PTI inputs)