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On Sunday, U.S. Border Patrol came under attack when a large group of Central American migrants from the infamous caravan stormed wall near the San Ysidro port of entry just outside of Tijuana, Mexico. The Border Patrol responded by dispersing the group (mostly adult males) with tear gas, a non-lethal method. Yet, during their Monday evening broadcasts, ABC and NBC were aghast and suggested President Trump was defending the tear gassing of children.
As if it was America’s greatest shame caught on video, sensationalist ABC anchor David Muir began the World News Tonight segment by declaring: “The images of the tear gas used at the U.S./Mexico border seen across the country and the world.” “This mother and her children among those caught in the chaos,” he continued.
As chief national correspondent Matt Gutman began his report, he was in full spin mode and claimed the migrants were conducting a “peaceful protest” when they were clashing with Mexican police. “They were met by a wall of tear gas unleashed by heavily-armed U.S. agents behind those coils of concertina wire,” he noted disapprovingly, before touting how “[s]ome of those migrants throwing the canisters right back.”
“Thick smoke sending mothers with children in diapers into a panic,” Gutman huffed, failing to ask why children were dragged there to begin with. “Today, the President denied that agents used tear gas against children,” he lied.
Gutman also spoke to a teenager supposedly injured in their assault on the border and cheered on his future attempts to get in the U.S. illegally.