Sad state of America. Using rubber bullets and tear gas on migrants

[Menace2Society]

Pakistan should be doing this on the afghan border.

 

[Nilgiri]

Pakistan should be doing this on the afghan border.

Past tense would be even better.

 

[jhungary]

Its cool. Mexico has already fact checked the tomato farmer big time. This group of 500 are being rounded up by Mexico and are to be deported back to where they came from....for breaking Mexican law as well.

Tomato farmer can post all the tweets from twits that he wants to....aint going to change facts on the ground.

There is a process to stand in line at port of entry and wait for processing of your asylum case. You violate that, you get sent back, its really not rocket science. Any violence inflicted on you because of your stupidity (like that missionary that went on purpose to the Sentinel island tribe not once or twice but 5 times) is on you as well....because it was made very clear to you in first place what the process is for admittance.

@gambit @jhungary @VCheng

Well, people have their take on things, so I am not going to comment on our friend "Direction of Belief".

People who familiar with the situation knows those people are economic migrant, not refugee, from numerous interview with them they recount time and again saying they are moving to the US for a better life, nobody is forcing them to do so, nor anyone is prosecuting these people, in fact, more than 70% of the migrant train have gone back home already. Then if this is the case, this make them Illegal Alien, not refugee.

So, take whatever you might, but meh, you need to read your own label

 

[nahtanbob]

True...but that wasn't my point.

American border guards have the right to shoot migrants.

a border guard who uses bullets against unarmed migrants will face prosecution from authorities
he could spend time in jail if convicted. at the least he would be risking his job and pension

tear gas looks like a better option against unruly crowd

 

[PeaceGen]

You could just start a military-assistance program that tackles the problems that cause these people to leave their home countries in the first place,
rather than leaving all that suffering in place, leaving the suffering from the regular caravans heading to the US in place, and creating an increasing problem enforcing your borders. You may well find a wall is not going to cut it, 2 years or so after being built.

Ideally, the US should set up asylum processing centres in the areas that these people flee from,
arrange safe transportation into the US where they can hopefully quickly be placed from an arrival centre in the US to a modest home of their own and a job lined up for them.

Shutting down your government just to get a part of a border wall up, that is not the silver-bullet solution that Republicans claim on US mass media that it is. My plan is.