Adam Isacson on Nostr: This incident in Eagle Pass, Texas, got slight attention in local media—I missed it ...

This incident in Eagle Pass, Texas, got slight attention in local media—I missed it completely.

Texas forces shot tear gas at a family of asylum seekers on the other side of a razor-wire barrier. They posed no threat.

No democratic nation's use-of-force guidelines allow this.

From the latest quarterly report on asylum at the border by the U. Texas Strauss Center: https://www.strausscenter.org/publications/asylum-processing-at-the-u-s-mexico-border-august-2024/