{"id":12288,"date":"2018-11-26T22:07:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2018-11-26T22:07:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:07:40","slug":"u-s-mex-border-patrol-chief-defends-use-of-tear-gas-on-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=12288","title":{"rendered":"U.S. &#8211; MEX Border Patrol chief defends use of tear gas on migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"ORGOV0000136155\" title=\"U.S. Customs and Border Protection\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/topic\/business\/u.s.-customs-border-protection-ORGOV0000136155-topic.html\">US. Customs and Border Protection<\/a>\u00a0Commissioner Kevin McAleenan praised agents\u2019 response, including the use of tear gas, during clashes on Sunday at the\u00a0<a id=\"SDCT0056\" title=\"San Ysidro\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/topic\/san-diego-county\/san-ysidro-SDCT0056-topic.html\">San Ysidro<\/a>\u00a0border crossing, saying their actions avoided serious injuries on both sides and \u201ceffectively managed a potentially dangerous situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conflict marked a major escalation in the crisis at the border, spurring U.S. officials to shut the San Ysidro Port of Entry between Tijuana and San Diego, one of the world\u2019s busiest international crossings, for more than four hours on Sunday. More than 4,700 Central Americans have been living in a Tijuana sports complex since a large group of immigrants and asylum seekers arrived this month, fleeing increased violence in their home countries and seeking work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US. Customs and Border Protection\u00a0Commissioner Kevin&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12289,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12288\/revisions\/12289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}