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Looking at this @Reuters photo of @CBP shooting tear gas at migrants in Tijuana today—one of these kids is in diapers—consider how accustomed we are to seeing that poison shot at unarmed people of color, fellow Americans who also just want a chance at a better future.
“Desperation has led some people to really believe that crossing is possible,” Alex Almendares, a 22-year-old member of the caravan, told @washingtonpost. He thought the protest hurt their cause. “It just gets people mad at us and I want asylum,” he said. wapo.st/2DXetsR
Requesting legal asylum is not a criminal offense. Denying the chance to request legal asylum is a crime against humanity. That’s it.
This @latimes dispatch is the most comprehensive report that I have read to date about what happened Sunday at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. Give it a read, folks. lat.ms/2Sea8EH
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#US @CBP lied about deploying #teargas because rocks were thrown and didn't deploy on those trying to cross border. @CBP on the top of the hill shooting rubber bullets at #migrants, medics and photographers and getting ready to throw #teargas. Filmed through whole in fence
You can see how far away @CBPSanDiego is from the wall and not even close to proximity of a hurled rock, which none were thrown. Shortly after they deployed #teargas on a group of photographers +100ft from the fence
@CBP deploying #teargas at #migrants at the #BorderWall. They put out a statement saying they didn't do so and they shot only at those throwing rocks. You don't see rocks thrown and can see they are way up high on a hill where rocks couldn't reach if they wanted. Fire starts
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This just feeds Trump's border rhetoric-but the MX & US gov't ignoring these desperate people is the reason that it escalated. So cruel #Tijuana #BorderCrisis
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2/"TIJUANA, Mexico — U.S. authorities closed off the busiest port of entry along the U.S. border with Mexico on Sunday and fired tear gas at members of a Central American migrant caravan who had rushed the fencing that separates the countries.Although the number of of people in
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Hundreds try to storm the border. Expect significant US response #tijuana
Border now closed to all
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Today is the 7th Friday of the #GreatReturnMarch & the last 1 before #Nakba70 day. Last week was the 1st time Friday's protests w no deaths.
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Not a single Israeli was hurt & not 1 rocket launched
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