Tear gas and pepper spray can have lasting health effects

Stinging clouds of tear gas explode from beneath a car full of children, forcing them to flee into the snowy street to seek air that’s safe to breathe. A man, face painted orange with pepper spray, is pinned to the icy ground by masked federal agents, unable to wipe the pain from his burning eyes. For weeks, reports of incidents like these have been coming out of Minnesota, where the Department of Homeland Security is facing daily protests over the agency’s largest immigration enforcement operation in its history.

DHS claims it has arrested thousands of undocumented immigrants, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has justified the widespread use

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