8/26: Now We Know: Border Officials Wanted to Zap Immigrants with a Microwave Ray

8/26/20

Kinda like this, but with an invisible microwave beam. 

A few weeks before the election in 2018, when the migrant caravan traveling north from Central America had all but reached the American border, Donald Trump told the head of the Department of Homeland Security and the White House staff that the time had come for "extreme measures" to keep the migrants out of the U.S.

That very day, in a meeting between top DHS honchos and the Department of Customs and Border Security (CBP) honchos, the CBP floated the idea of deterring immigration by using a "heat ray," a military device that uses a microwave to make people's skin feel as if it's burning.

Thankfully, others at the meeting were appalled at the idea of using a device on other human beings that many Americans wouldn't use against a cockroach. The Homeland Security Secretary, then Kirstjen Nielsen, stomped on the idea hard, asking that it not be brought up in meetings again.

You have to wonder about these people. Maybe the CBP were showing off whose equipment was biggest. Maybe they'd been roused to craziness via Steve Miller, the White House Gollum that everybody loves to hate, and who allegedly came up with the idea of separating families at the U.S. border.

Wherever the CBP got the heat-ray idea, though, it apparently already exists: the U.S. military developed it as a weapon. But for what use? Crowd control?

Just think about that.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/513809-trump-border-officials-suggested-using-microwave-heat-ray-on-migrants?fbclid=IwAR1LLVYC8oc9JGM4JDvBruD7C0B6Ts3mnwmLkeEuKeUC5EkUHf2D2TX4mEo