Mexico Says Border Patrol Assaulting Tijuana With Tear Gas

Carolyn Hileman | December 18, 2007 

Witnesses, Mexican authorities and human rights groups said U.S. Border Patrol agents have begun launching pepper spray and tear gas from San Diego into densely populated Tijuana neighborhoods in response to escalating clashes with smugglers, it was reported Friday. Border Patrol agents told the Los Angeles Times they have had to counter human traffickers’ increasingly aggressive tactics — especially near Tijuana’s most notorious smuggling neighborhood of Colonia Libertad — by ramping up their own use of force. Agents have used pepper spray in the past, but usually aimed directly at the smugglers, according to the Times. The new tactics, which saturate large areas, have forced dozens of temporary evacuations and sent some residents to hospitals, witnesses told the newspaper.

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