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Well, while the agents themselves aren't able to speak out of the moment, they are allowed to talk with their representatives, and one joins us now to share what he has learned. hector garcia is a national border patrol council president and is with us tonight from san antonio. hector, what are the people on your team telling you on the ground? you just saw a report about what happened, another very emotional woman who says they started throwing teargas canisters at us. that's not actually what happened but that's what she said. what did they encounter? >> agents were under attack. they were a...

We ended up making about 40 to arrest, only eight of those were females and there were only a few children involved. the vast majority of people we are dealing with here where adult males. similar to what we saw the first wave of the caravan that came up about a week or so ago, the group immediately started throwing rocks and debris at our agents, taunting the agents. once our agents were assaulted and the numbers started growing, we had two or three agents at a time initially facing hundreds of people at a time. they deployed teargas to protect themselves and to protect the border. if they we...

All the time and nobody cares. but those weren't american citizens who just saw getting teargas over the weekend, they were migrants, they were holy men on a sacred pilgrimage north. what happened to them was inexcusable, q the moral outrag outrage. >> here we look at children being subjected to teargas, that's the united states causing that, that's outrageous. >> we have seen the images of the children and the women and there has got to be a pragmatic and compassionate answer here that does not involve teargas and children. that is not who america is. >> tucker: that's not what america is dec...

Well, while the agents themselves aren't able to speak out of the moment, they are allowed to talk with their representatives, and one joins us now to share what he has learned. hector garcia is a national border patrol council president and is with us tonight from san antonio. hector, what are the people on your team telling you on the ground? you just saw a report about what happened, another very emotional woman who says they started throwing teargas canisters at us. that's not actually what happened but that's what she said. what did they encounter? >> agents were under attack. they were a...

Of tijuana and you can see some of the u.s. customs and border protection agent standing by ready to respond. they don't anticipate another event like yesterday. that involve some folks that ran up to this wall and some reported throwing rocks at the border patrol agent. as a result they used tear gas and pepper spray balls and the border protection agency defended the move. >> our agent were being assaulted. a large group rushed the area and were throwing rocks and bottles at my men and women putting them in harm's way as well as other members of the