Using tear gas against groups of illegal immigrants charging the U.S. border has been called evil, a war crime and a disgrace. But it is more routine than you think.
President Donald Trump’s critics went gonzo after Border Patrol agents used tear gas to disperse members of a Honduran “migrant caravan” who charged the border at the San Ysidro border crossing and attacked agents with rocks and bottles.
Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz of Hawaii seemed to suggest that the Border Patrol violated the Chemical Weapons Convention... The senator later deleted his remark.
Exactly five years earlier, during the Obama administration, border agents repelled a gang of rock and bottle throwing illegal immigrants using pepper spray. This was just one of 151 uses of pepper spray at the border that year alone, in addition to 27 uses of tear gas, and all without a peep about “war crimes” or the Holocaust.
Why wouldn't we get an accurate image about it? Who are these migrants? where does the aggression come from? why pushing the mothers and children in front? and who is behind it?
No comments:
Post a Comment