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Trump Administration Defends Tear Gas Use at U.S.-Mexico Border

HeadlineNov 28, 2018

This comes as the Trump administration defended the Border Patrol for firing tear gas into crowds of migrants—including mothers and children—as they tried to cross the U.S. border from Tijuana on Sunday. This is Ronald Colburn, president of the Border Patrol Foundation and former national deputy chief of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, speaking on “Fox & Friends” on Monday.

Ronald Colburn: “The type of deterrent being used is OC pepper spray. It’s literally water, pepper, with a small amount of alcohol for evaporation purposes. It’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it. So it’s a good way of deterring people without long-term harm.”

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