US Customs and Border Protection statement forthcoming

[oberliner]

Here's what they have tweeted out:

Link to tweet

Today, several migrants threw projectiles at the agents in San Diego. Border Patrol agents deployed tear gas to dispel the group because of the risk to agents' safety. Several agents were hit by the projectiles. The situation is evolving and a statement is forthcoming.

[Ferrets are Cool]

1. Guess what YOU MOTHERFUCKER...if we welcomed them with open arms

no projectiles would be forthcoming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even if they are.

[John Fante]

2. "The situation is evolving" is code for

"give us a second while get our BS lies straight".

[VOX]

5. Sad truth right there.

[uppityperson]

3. What do you think about this report, esp compared to other reports about it, oberliner?

[oberliner]

6. What report?

There hasn't been a report issued yet, has there?

[uppityperson]

7. There are lots of news reports, and reports on DU. Here's a couple du links reporting it.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142210077
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211472128

[oberliner]

8. Sorry, I misunderstood what you meant

Yes, I have read several of the news reports this evening and have also seen some photos and videos from the scene. It's a truly awful situation for those folks.

[uppityperson]

15. Which folks, the border agents or refugees?

It's good to clarify these things.

[oberliner]

16. Are you seriously asking this question?

[uppityperson]

18. Yes. Why are you avoiding answering?

[oberliner]

20. What are you talking about? How is it even a question?

Do you know what these folks have been through? Do you know what their lives must be like in Honduras or elsewhere to have risked their lives in this way? Do you know how much they have suffered and given up to even get to this point?

[uppityperson]

22. Yes, I know what the refugees and asylum seekers are escaping. I can't read your mind so asked

and you still won't answer who you mean by " It's a truly awful situation for those folks".

[oberliner]

23. Huh?

I'm lost as to what point you are making.

Do you not think those folks are dealing with an awful situation? They left Honduras and travelled literally thousands of miles to get to the US border and are being housed in horrid conditions in Mexico and enduring tear gas from the US. These folks literally have no place to go, no safe haven, it's awful.

[uppityperson]

26. Yes, I know what the refugees and asylum seekers are escaping. I can't read your mind so asked

and you still won't answer who you mean by " It's a truly awful situation for those folks".

Your OP is about border agents being hit by projectiles. Who do you mean by "those folks", the border agents or the refugees?

[oberliner]

27. OK

Understood.

[uppityperson]

28. Yet still won't answer.

Yes, I know what the refugees and asylum seekers are escaping. I can't read your mind so asked and you still won't answer who you mean by " It's a truly awful situation for those folks.
Your OP is about border agents being hit by projectiles. Who do you mean by "those folks", the border agents or the refugees?
".

[VOX]

4. "Several migrants threw projectiles"-- What, like empty slushie cups?

Because Orange Hitler says that rocks are rifles, and here, tear-gas was deployed. Therefore, guessing rocks were not thrown.

[oberliner]

11. The Trump perspective?

It's a tweet from US Customs and Border Protection.

[oberliner]

13. The commissioner of the US Customs and Border Protection is Kevin McAleenan

He is widely respected and was recommended for the position by President Obama, having served as Deputy Commissioner during the Obama administration.

[OAITW r.2.0]

14. Obama isn't President anymore.

JFC, when will you hold Trump responsible for his border policies?

[oberliner]

19. Trump is responsible for his border policies

All I did was post the tweet from CBP. They do not equal Trump.

[BaileyBill]

10. I suppose we are lucky they didn't use live ammunitioin

like they've done with some juvenile stone-throwers. Those agents must have been terrified with nothing but full body armor and a wall to protect them. As someone else around here said, if they have arms like that then Major League Baseball would love to have them.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Fuck these garbage policies and those who enforce them.

[UniteFightBack]

24. It's too bad that they can not be believed. nt

[Bucky]

25. Autocrats love chaos. It gives them a chance to crack down.

So it's all terribly convenient for them that Trump so willfully mismanaged the refugee surge, that chaos broke out at the border crossing and led to a violent overreaction, by both the small group of refugees trying to crossover and the border guards who have to deal with it.

This whole thing could have been easily managed, if we only had leadership that cared about handling the country's problems. They did virtually nothing to prepare for the influx of new refugees, just about guaranteeing that chaos would break out, and then violence would occur.

This is gross incompetence, and all of it lands at Trump's puffy pink feet. He thrives on chaos, it's his sunlight. And he doesn't care who he hurts