Top US border official defends use of tear gas against migrants
by Molly O'Toole, Los Angeles Times
Dec 11, 2018
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - The head of the federal agency responsible for protecting the U.S. border on Tuesday defended his agents for using tear gas against migrants last month, but lawmakers pressed him about women and children forced to flee clouds of the noxious gas.
The testimony marked the administration's most detailed explanation of the Nov. 25 clash, when Border Patrol agents blocked several hundred Central American migrants trying to rush en masse
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