While arguing Monday that the use of tear gas on hundreds of migrants and asylum-seekers near the U.S. border the previous day was justified, a Fox News guest asserted: “It’s natural. You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it.”
“So it’s a good way of deterring people without long-term harm,” Border Patrol Foundation President Ron Colburn told “Fox & Friends.” Colburn is the former national deputy chief of U.S. Border Patrol, according to an online bio.
The comment recalled when then-Fox News host Megyn Kelly called pepper spray “a food product, essentially” after a police officer at UC Davis pepper sprayed seated student protesters in 2011, leading to some creative Amazon reviews.
Earlier in the interview Monday, Colburn asserted that the so-called “caravan” of migrants and asylum-seekers “has a core of violence to it that basically communicates a sense of entitlement.”
“These are persons that one would like to think are true refugees,” Colburn said, “but they are not showing that in their actions.”
Watch below:
Former Border Patrol national deputy chief: Asylum-seekers and migrants at the border are communicating "a sense of entitlement."
Tear gas used on them is "natural: You could actually put it on your nachos and eat it."
H/t @revrrlewis pic.twitter.com/6wgiQFbcK2
— Matt Shuham (@mattshuham) November 26, 2018
H/t Bobby Lewis, Daily Beast.
I think he needs to demonstrate, on air, just how harmless it is. Until then, STFU.
Nachos, maybe.
But not on a taco salad.
What a dickhead.
Smoke, meet asshole.
Anthrax is natural too…
Sounds like some of the Fox folx need to be tear gassed and pepper-sprayed, and why not waterboarded, too? Water is natural! Totally! It couldn’t possibly hurt them, right? And might improve their reporting!
But seriously - people with limited to no empathy have to actually undergo unpleasant experiences themselves in order to comprehend them. Sad but true.