Leftmedia Peddles Fake News on Migrant Mob
A photo of a mother running with two young children, both in diapers, fleeing a canister belching tear gas is being used by the mainstream media to characterize President Donald Trump’s insistence on enforcement of the U.S. border as cruel and anti-immigrant. Several Democrat lawmakers even suggested that the U.S. Border Patrol’s use of tear gas constituted a violation of international law regarding chemical weapons. Democrats can only seem to find fault with Patriots enforcing our nation’s laws, not foreign-flag-waving migrants actively engaged in breaking the law as they sought to violently breach America’s southern border.
What about the women and children caught in the fray? Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen set the record straight, stating, “It appears in some cases that the limited number of women and children in the caravan are being used by the organizers as ‘human shields’ when they confront law enforcement. They are being put at risk by the caravan organizers as we saw at the Mexico-Guatemala border. This is putting vulnerable people in harm’s way.” Exactly. As Philip Wegmann of the Washington Examiner bluntly put it, “Don’t want to be gassed? Don’t riot. Don’t want your children to be gassed? Don’t bring them to the kind of protests susceptible to rioting.”
Nielsen also pointed out that the use of tear gas to disperse a mob has been regularly used at the border. “The accepted use of nonlethal force (also used by the Obama Administration in 2013) prevented further injury to agents and a mass illegal rush across the border,” she said. As we noted yesterday, under the Obama administration U.S. Border Patrol agents were authorized to employ the same nonlethal mob-dispersing tactics, including the use of both tear gas and pepper spray. In fact, at times during Obama’s tenure, the Border Patrol used tear gas and pepper spray monthly. Where was the Democrat and media outrage then?
As they did with the photos of kids in cages, Democrats and their media cohorts are appealing to emotion over reason as they intentionally conflate and confuse legal and illegal immigration and asylum. The Leftmedia willfully misinforms the American public as it seeks to promote the acceptance of a globalist, anti-American agenda that is dead set on eroding national boundaries. Never mind the fact that the vast majority of the migrants who violently rushed the border Sunday were in fact young men. The images of helpless migrant children caught in the fray are designed to prey on the maternal instincts of the Democrat Party’s largest voting block: women.
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