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"The Washington Post offered a yellow journalism headline: "These children are barefoot. In diapers. Choking on tear gas."
"What kind of mother endangers her toddlers like this? She is wicked.
"The coverage of what the New York Times called "a peaceful protest gone wrong" is sappy.
"Paragraph Three of another Washington Post story encapsulated the third-world press coverage that shrouds the story.
"Linked through a third party, the story said, "What had begun Sunday morning as a migrant protest of the slow pace of the U.S. asylum claims process devolved into a chaotic scramble in which hundreds made their way to the border hoping to cross onto U.S. soil. To block that from happening, and as some threw rocks and bottles, Customs and Border Protection officers took the rare step of firing tear gas into Mexico as well as closing all legal vehicle and foot traffic to the San Ysidro border crossing, which U.S. officials say normally has about 100,000 visitors per day."
"This is the same press that took an unverified rumor of one person calling a congressman the N-word to brand the millions of Tea Party members as racist.
"But "some" people (500 according to BBC) throwing projectiles at American officials somehow doesn't represent the "protesters," who apparently are all babies in diapers and their mothers." . . .
The caravan’s organizers also pushed women and children to the front of the clash,
Border Patrol agents revealed in interviews that the migrants storming the U.S.-Mexico border over the weekend were using women and children as human shields as they launched rocks at agents. . . . "Judd explained that the situation at the border yesterday was “unprecedented” and that migrants had never tried before to rush a port of entry. The Border Patrol veteran explained that illegal immigrants often abandon woman and children while being chased by authorities, knowing that they will hinder officers while they abscond. " . . .
Remember when Obama used tear gas on these people in 2013?
(Copyright © 2018, The San Diego Union-Tribune)
Tear gas used once a month at border under Obama. No complaints here.
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