Pirate's Cove

You knew this was going to appear at some point after NICE said they were going to buy the gloves, right?

Democrats urge ICE to halt purchase of electric gloves ‘before more innocent lives are lost’

House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee are calling for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin to abandon plans to equip immigration agents with electric shock gloves and “halt this procurement before more innocent lives are lost.”

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) earlier this month published a notice of their plan to buy the generated low output voltage emitter, marketed as G.L.O.V.E., prompting widespread concern over how they may be used. ICE is a part of DHS led by Mullin.

“Under the Trump administration, ICE has repeatedly violated the law and disregarded its own policies on the use of force, shooting 23 people and killing 6, including 3 U.S. citizens. Many of these individuals were not the target of immigration enforcement operations and, in some cases, they were simply exercising their First Amendment rights. As we have raised in previous letters, DHS personnel have also permanently injured and nearly killed innocent people with so-called ‘less-lethal’ weapons, not unlike the G.L.O.V.E.,” Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) wrote in the letter to Mullin.

“Indeed, ICE has demonstrated a pattern of misusing tools and devices, including rubber bullets and chemical sprays, in manners that put the public at greater risk of serious injury or death.”

Oh, good, House Dems are basically slamming every single person that works for ICE and DHS. Not that they care. Not that the majority of the people killed or injured didn’t put themselves in that position. Democrats will always take the side of illegal aliens and violent Democrats.

Border czar Tom Homan has described the gloves as something of an intermediary step.

“Look, it’s another device to help someone be compliant, whether or not — you know, you just can’t go from zero to 100, right?” he said during an appearance on Fox News last week.

“There’s a lot of training involved. There’s still some background issues that need to be dealt with. So, the implementation of these gloves out in the field are going to be a while. I think they serve a better purpose in detention facility, where detainees get out of control and there’s fights in the facility,” Homan said.

Maybe Democrats should stop pushing their peasants to be nutjobs out in the streets. Maybe they should stop telling illegals to come to the U.S.