Border authorities use tear gas to stop migrant charge at southern border

"Migrants run as tear gas is thrown by U.S. Border Protection officers to the Mexican side of the border fence after they climbed the fence to get to San Diego from on Tuesday. Discouraged by the long wait to apply for asylum through official ports of entry, many migrants from recent caravans are choosing to cross the U.S. border wall and hand themselves over to agents."

They don't want to wait in line. They don't want to follow the law. They want to enter the U.S. by charging the border.

They put the lives of their children in danger because they know it's easier on them if they drag a child along. So far, two of the children didn't make it and died. So far, over 250 children are ill and of these, about half are under the age of five.

The U.S. Border Protection has its hands full and that's what the illegal aliens are counting on--overwhelming the agents who guard our borders and charge into the country as if it is their right to do so. 

Now U.S. Border Protection had to use tear gas to keep the illegal aliens out and on the Mexican side of the border.

The new year brought continued tensions along the U.S.-Mexico border as U.S. authorities fired tear gas at migrants from the Central American caravan that has gathered there with about 150 illegal aliens, to keep them from breaching the border fence with Tijuana, Mexico.

An Associated Press photographer witnessed at least three volleys of gas launched onto the Mexican side of the border near Tijuana’s beach early Tuesday. It affected the migrants, including women and children, as well as members of the press. This is what tear gas was designed to do--affect people who would otherwise break the law, especially the rock-throwers on the Mexican side who tried to prevent agents from helping children being passed over the concertina barb wire, as per U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP). Agents said 25 migrants were detained.

Migrants who spoke with AP said they arrived last month with the caravan from Honduras.

Such clashes have been common as the migrants, who have put their names on a waiting list that is thousands of names long, have grown restless, with some opting to force their way across the border, unlike the rest of the U.S. immigrants who legally applied for citizenship and waited their turn.

USCBP Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said last year that the Border Patrol’s use-of-force policy allows agents to use tear gas and other nonlethal methods. Rubber bullets would do a better job, but that's not allowed.

In November, after a group of migrants tried to rush the border, McAleenan defended the use of tear gas: “As the events unfolded, quick, decisive and effective action prevented an extremely dangerous situation.”

President Trump is trying to get Democrats to negotiate over building a border wall. After all, John Kerry has a wall around a family home in France and is doing his best to keep it there while the residents want it down.

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Migrant illness rampant: forces US Border Patrol to seek help

"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people." -- Donald J. Trump

And now they're bringing their sickest people, especially their children.

In the seven days through Sunday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) reported 451 cases referred to physicians or other providers, including 259 children. Among the children, half of the cases involved kids under the age of five!

Hundreds of migrants and their kids seeking to enter the U.S. from Mexico are arriving with illnesses, forcing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to seek additional medical assistance and boost medical screenings, the agency disclosed Monday.

The sick migrants have been arriving with a myriad of ailments, many with flu or pneumonia that is often pervasive and dangerous, especially at this time of year. Seventeen migrants have been hospitalized, including six children, according to the agency.

"The U.S. Border Patrol is doing everything in its power to handle this crisis," Commissioner Kevin McAleenan said in a statement. However he added, "The status quo is not acceptable" given the wave of immigrants arriving. Something needs to change.

Disclosure of the numbers of sick migrants come amid heightened concern about the medical condition of children in U.S. custody. Previously, the agency disclosed an 8-year-old boy from Guatemala died in custody on Christmas, the second immigrant child to pass away in detention this month.

The boy, Felipe Gomez Alonzo, had been treated and released to his father for cold and fever symptoms during nearly a week in U.S. custody, the agency said.

The Border Patrol has been receiving assistance from the Coast Guard, which has sent medical teams to the border in the Yuma and Tucson, Arizona, and Rio Grande Valley sectors of the border. The Public Health Service also said it will deploy teams to assist.

The Border Patrol is changing procedures to enhance medical evaluations of children. Parents are being interviewed about their children's medical condition and history and kids' blood pressure, pulse and temperature are among the vitals being checked by assessment teams, McAleenan told reporters in a conference call.

He said he believes the illness were likely contracted in transit to the U.S., not while in U.S. custody. 

But if anyone is to blame, it's the parents, not ICE or USCBP.

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Border Patrol shuts down tunnel construction at border with Mexico

Border Patrol agents were able to find and foil the construction of a cross-border tunnel [built in the spirit of Hezbollah without as much of the potential violence] on Monday during a tunnel sweep with the cooperation of Mexican law enforcement.

The tunnel was about 50 feet long, 2 feet wide and 2 feet tall.

Although the tunnel was incomplete, it was apparently designed for smuggling, the Tucson Sector Border Patrol said in a statement. Most of it, about 44 feet, was on the U.S. side of the border, so Chuck Schumer concluded the Trump administration was planning to use it for smuggling Russian prostitutes into the country. [Just kidding.]

"Tucson Sector Border Patrol continues to work closely with strategic partners in Mexico to detect tunnels under construction to prevent the movement of illegal contraband or persons across the border," U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) said.

The two cities of Nogales, in Arizona and Mexico, have an international waterway for controlling flooding, and the tunnel's entrance was submerged under it. The tunnel ended underneath a parking lot, its exit not yet constructed and structural shoring and digging tools lying inside. 

Officials plan to fill the tunnel with concrete, unlike the IDF who enjoys blowing the structures up.

U.S. Border Patrol Agent Daniel Hernandez said this is the first tunnel discovered in Nogales in two years, but the city has been the site of the largest number of cross-border tunnels built in recent decades, according to the Arizona Republic which reports:

Hernandez could not immediately provide the most recent statistics, but the Border Patrol has said in the past that since 1990, more than 173 tunnels had been found along the border, with about 103 of them discovered in the Nogales area.

The tunnel will be under surveillance while authorities prepare to fill it in rather than blow the damn thing up.

How the IDF destroys a Hezbollah tunnel

"Agents will continue to monitor and inspect the incomplete tunnel until it is properly secured and remediated with concrete filler," USCBP said.

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