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Latino civil rights group condemns use of tear gas at Mexican border

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The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) condemned the use of tear gas and rubber bullets on a crowd of migrant refugees at the…
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) condemned the use of tear gas and rubber bullets on a crowd of migrant refugees at the U. S.-Mexico border in Tijuana, which President Trump has defended as a necessary use of force.
Trump on Monday downplayed the incident as involving “a very minor form of the tear gas itself” and argued “it’s very safe.”
Trump blamed parents for “running up into an area where they know the tear gas is forming and it’s going to be formed.”
Domingo Garcia, the national president of LULAC, the nation’s largest and oldest civil rights group for Hispanic Americans, strongly disputed Trump’s characterization.

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