EL PASO, Texas: "U.S. officials say they were forced to fire pepper balls at a crowd of migrants who repeatedly tried to force their way into the United States late Monday over a railroad bridge straddling Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas. The mass entry attempt took place only hours after the U.S. Border Patrol warned about social media rumors inciting migrants in Juarez to approach the border because immigration officials allegedly would be processing asylum-seekers at a railroad bridge in South El Paso. The rumors were false, but up to 1,000 migrants walked up to the railroad bridge on Monday. The pepper balls started flying after some migrants walked onto the U.S. side of the structure, known in Juarez as the Puente Negro, started shaking the border wall and allegedly threw rocks in the direction of U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers on the American side.

CBP officers deployed their pepper ball firing system on various occasions until the crowd dispersed back to Mexico. A Border Report video of the incident shows most of the pepper balls striking the fence and a metallic sign on the fence.

But immigrant advocates in El Paso who went to Juarez on a fact-finding tour on Tuesday said U.S. federal officials used “disproportionate” force against asylum-seekers. They said CBP and any other agencies involved in crowd-control efforts failed to de-escalate the situation, and will be asking the Department of Justice to review the incident."

https://www.borderreport.com/immigration/border-officers-fire-pepper-balls-at-migrants-attempting-mass-entry/