U.S. Border Patrol agents launched pepper balls at a group of migrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border along the Rio Grande in El Paso after the agency said one person threw a rock at one agent and another was assaulted with a flagpole.
shows Border Patrol agents approaching the group, which included a man holding a very large Venezuelan flag, that had crossed the shallow river.
Border Patrol spokesperson Landon Hutchens said in a statement that as the group of Venezuelan nationals protested along the river, they tried to enter the U.S. illegally.Venezuelan migrants clash with the Border Patrol as Border Patrol fire paintballs at Venezuelan migrants who approached the border between the United States and Mexico in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on October 31, 2022.
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