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moreluck

golden ticket member
Maybe people should look back and see how many times Obama used tear gas and pepper spray on illegal immigrants when he was president. I don't remember the "stars" griping then!!
 

Old Man Jingles

Rat out of a cage
Acosta is such a boorish yahoo even if he is a good reporter who is wrong a lot of times.

It’s been about three weeks since CNN reporter Jim Acosta repeatedly told President Trump at a news conference that the migrant caravan is “hundreds and hundreds of miles away” and “not an invasion.” Acosta strenuously objected to a Trump ad that showed migrants climbing border walls: “They’re not going to be doing that.”

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Box Ox

Well-Known Member
Going after the current use of tear gas on the border is a losing issue for Democrats. It was used monthly under the Obama administration. Often against the same kind of rock-throwing groups.

And infantalizing illegal immigrants by suggesting that the mothers among them had no choice but to put their children at the forefront of a situation possibly as dangerous as placing them in the middle of a roadway (due to the rock throwers) is sick. And insulting to the intelligence of moderate voters who choose common sense over blindly towing the line for either political party.

Get that :censored2: outta here. The US Border Patrol did nothing wrong when it repelled rock throwers trying to get through the fence under Obama, and nothing wrong when it did the same this month under Trump. Some people just can’t stand that the latter is true. Because it’d be acknowledging that the fat man-child :censored2: (which he is) in the White House is doing something right.

Take a deep breath and give the strict party loyalty thing a break.
 

newfie

Well-Known Member
The rhetoric and policy has been consistent from our country in regards to the immigration issue. the only thing that changes is who is in power in the White House and who is in power in Congress. once you determine who's in power it's easy to determine what the script will be coming at you from which side of the aisle. it's almost as if they take the same script and just hand it back and forth as the leadership changes.
 

PT Stewie

"Big Fella"
According to DHS data, during the Obama administration, tear gas was used on the border 26 times in 2012, 27 times in 2013, 15 times in 2014, eight times in 2015, and three times in 2016. That compares to 18 times in 2017 and 29 times in 2018 during the Trump administration.

Additionally, during the Obama administration, pepper spray was used 95 times in 2012, 151 times in 2013, 109 times in 2014, 30 times in 2015 and 56 times in 2016, the data shows. Pepper spray was used 56 times in 2017 and 43 times in 2018 during the Trump administration.
 
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