Sorry that Uncle Ken had trouble accessing my link. Maybe he will have better luck with this one, although he may have already seen the story on TV since it came from CNN.
https://a.msn.com/r/2/BBQ7Q2J?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
To make a long story short, some caravan people made a rush at the border and Border Control agents used tear gas to disperse them. Some have accused them of using excessive force, but I think they used the minimum force necessary to accomplish their mission, which is consistent with what I learned in my military riot control training. I doubt that this will be the end of matter, though. As the caravan people keep piling up at the border, they will likely become more aggressive, and our guys will have to escalate accordingly. Like I said in the beginning, this is not going to be pretty.
The article about the citizen militias did not paint them as adolescent cowboys. The are armed for their own protection but, so far, all they have done is spot the illegals and report them to the Border Patrol. We actually have something like that in our neck of the woods, except they are guarding spawning sturgeon against poachers. We have a small population of lake sturgeon in one of our inland lakes, and they run up the Black River to spawn in the spring. The river is quite shallow, which makes the fish vulnerable to illegal spearing. There is a short season in February when a limited number of sturgeon may be speared through the lake ice, and the only reason that is still open is that volunteers patrol the Black River during the spawning run. They are not supposed to confront any poachers they see, just use their cell phones to call in the DNR agents to make the bust. This program has been going on for some time, and I have never heard anything bad about it.
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