“The CS gas we deploy is standard law enforcement issue,” Kevin McAleenan told CNN’s Chris Cuomo, contradicting the president’s claim that border agents used a “minor form” of the chemical agent.
President Donald Trump is defending the use of tear gas at the Mexican border by claiming that U. S. border patrol agents used a “very minor form” of the weapon, but even the president’s own border chief can’t back up that assertion.
Kevin McAleenan, the Trump-appointed commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, said during an interview on Monday that there is only one type of tear gas that is used by agents.
“Is there such a thing as a good kind of tear gas?” CNN’s Chris Cuomo asked McAleenan during a broadcast of Cuomo Prime Time . “There’s only one kind, right?”
“The CS gas we deploy is standard law enforcement issue,” McAleenan replied, knocking down Trump’s claim that agents had somehow used a less harmful kind of gas on migrants trying to cross the southern border.
The Trump administration has been under fire for using the chemical weapon to repel a crowd of migrants who were attempting to seek asylum at the U.
