Breaking: US agents fire tear gas at migrants along border

[Mrs. Overall]

U.S. border agents began spraying tear gas at migrants attempting to breach a Southern border crossing on Sunday, the Associated Press reported.

The Central American migrants were seeking to come through a border crossing between Tijuana and California, according to an AP reporter at the scene.

The incident happened shortly after the U.S. suspended pedestrian crossings at the San Ysidro port of entry, one of the busiest entry points between the U.S. and Mexico.

DEVELOPING

https://thehill.com/latino/418160-us-agents-fire-tear-gas-at-migrants-along-border-ap?__twitter_impression=true

[Mrs. Overall]

1. According to AP reporter in Mexico: Parents trying to run with toddlers choking on the tear gas

Link to tweet

Chris Sherman
‏Verified account

US Border Patrol has just launched tear gas into Mexico. Breeze carrying it hundreds of yards. Parents running away with choking toddlers

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. How is it legal to be firing tear gas or anything else into Mexico?

[lostnfound]

19. Two examples to answer that question -- bullets

Border agents in two cases killed teenage boys on the other side of the border, and courts ruled in ways that did not protect human life.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/border-patrol-acquitted-involuntary-manslaughter.html


https://www.texasobserver.org/border-patrol-agents-can-shoot-and-kill-people-as-long-they-are-across-the-border-mexico-police/

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/20/516275461/high-court-to-hear-arguments-in-case-of-mexican-boy-killed-in-cross-border-shoot

[Me.]

3. Shameful

[milestogo]

4. Assholes.

[lpbk2713]

5. Now it begins ...

How long before they shoot women and children?

I don't watch network news very much but I'll be looking for this tonight.

[Arkansas Granny]

6. How long before someone throws a rock and US agents open fire into the crowd.

I fear this won't end well.

[Loge23]

7. Disgusting

This fool will destroy this country for generations.
A disgusting act of cowardice and everything against what defines this country more than anything else.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Bastards!

I fear that this is going to escalate into something even more ugly.

[colsohlibgal]

9. Seig Heil!

Orange Fuhrer is acting out, feeling the Walls closing in on his sorry self.

[Mrs. Overall]

10. Photo:

[Glimmer of Hope]

15. That poor mother. How can they do this?

[lpbk2713]

11. If the North Koreans shot across the DMZ it would be an act of war.

Why should Mexico not consider this open aggression an act of war?
They should at least take it to the United Nations.

[fescuerescue]

23. Mexico may very well consider an act of war

But what can they do? A war with Mexico with last about 30 minutes and just get tens of thousands of Mexicans killed and we would have to repaint a few tanks. The UN? They could say very bad things about us.

Not saying that it's right. It's just the way it is.

[procon]

12. Republican family values... Now with fresh teargas for the children. Fun for all! nt

[Grasswire2]

13. shock and awe

And Ukraine has called its war council over Russia confrontation today.

[doc03]

14. I think before it's over they will have a Kent State type massacre there. That

is what trump wants.

[octoberlib]

16. This is a disgrace.

[Mrs. Overall]

17. Just read where a reporter on scene says that they have "fired warning shots" at the crowd.

[unblock]

18. I think I found a photo:

or not...?

http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Watchf-AP-I-VNM-APHS021000-Vietnam-Napalm-1972/e674e44489a54fbca89b41a7d821b89e/1/1

[TomCADem]

20. Must Be Fake News. The Migrants Are NOT trying to illegally cross the Border.

They are waiting patiently until their asylum applications are processed. Don't fall for the Trump administrations talking points about immigrants trying to cross illegally into the U.S.

[NJCher]

21. this makes me sick

I do not want my country treating immigrants like this.

[INdemo]

22. Oh this will play to Trump"s base big time

Question: How in the hell are these Migrants taking our jobs if we have full employment
and produce farmers in the Southwest are begging for workers,migrant workers?