Isabel García, co-founder of Coalición de Derechos Humanos, a US grassroots organization that promotes the human and civil rights of all migrants, told Radio Sputnik's Loud & Clear that the National Guard deployment shows the administration's ignorance of and hatred for immigrants.
In December, the US government recognized Juan Orlando Hernández as the president of Honduras, even as locals mounted angry protests at what they believed to be a fraudulent vote count.
"The American public needs to wake up and see what we have done in Honduras, that there is an illegitimate president there. Trump acts shocked that people are walking toward the US after their countries were devastated by US policies," Garcia told Radio Sputnik.
"It's a dangerous move," she noted, referring to the military border deployment.
Garcia warned that immigrants are used by the government as an excuse to violate people's rights, violations that then get extended to the public as a whole. "This has major implications for immigrants and for all of society."
"The next step is military on the street."