Posted on 07/20/2019 2:23:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents had to use tear gas and pepper spray early Saturday to stop nearly 50 “undocumented individuals” from illegally entering the U.S. after they stormed a port of entry along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, officials said.
The incident at the Pharr-Reynosa International Bridge took place at around 4 a.m. The bridge is closed between midnight at 6 a.m., but CBP has had to construct temporary barriers in the middle of the span due to the large influx of migrants using the bridge at night.
A CBP official told Fox News the group attempted to rush across the bridge in three waves.
"Ignoring commands to stop, the group suddenly rushed the temporary barricades, bent metal poles and disabled the concertina wire affixed to the barrier,” the official said.
CBP officers, Border Patrol agents, Pharr police and members of the Texas Department of Public Safety were called upon to prevent the group’s entry, according to the official.
The bridge opened to commercial traffic at 8 a.m. after a two-hour delay.
The Trump administration has mandated that asylum seekers remain in Mexico while their cases are heard in an effort to slow the flow of mostly Central American migrants to the southern border. The White House also said this week it was banning migrants from seeking U.S. protections if they pass through another country first, though that rule has been challenged in court.
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The border patrol doesn’t have guns?
Since this is so obvious, but not being used, I can only conclude that it is easily defeated.
I’ve seen articles on-line stating a few ways to defeat it, and that it works poorly in some weather conditions.
It also requires a trained operator and time to recharge.
There have been hints that it is not effective in real world scenarios and so a waste of R&D tax dollars.
If it really does work we need to start a petition that it be deployed NOW!
“ignored commands to stop”
It is a breach.
It is an invasion.
This is not “refuge”.
This is scofflaw anarchy.
Foreign funded no less.
You can always spot a racist, fascist hellhole by the amount of nazis needed at the border to keep otherwise free people from breaking IN to that fascist hellhole. /s
Use bullets.
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