The commander of US forces deployed in San Diego to fortify the southern border said he does not view the migrants from a Central American caravan amassing in Mexico as “enemies” after President Donald Trump described them as an “invasion.” “I don’t consider them a military enemy, nor does the United States military doing this job. They’re simply migrants in a caravan moving towards the United States to seek a better way of life and asylum,” Army Captain Guster Cunningham III told Reuters on Thursday. “The military is not classifying them as the enemy in any way, shape or form,” he said. Trump’s politically charged decision to send troops to the border with Mexico came ahead of US congressional elections last week. He was seeking to strengthen border security as part of a crackdown on illegal immigration. Published in Daily Times, November 17th 2018.