National Immigration Law Center

And now the- these gloves do have, uh, critics.

Um, the National Immigration Law Center, again this is when we reported this in August, said, quote, "This is a rogue agency with an $80 billion slush fund that allows them c- to concoct and fund new ways to visit cruelty upon our communities," and they called it, quote, "disgusting and barbaric." But, uh, again, the Department of Homeland Security and other advocates for using these say that they can conceivably safely deescalate situations and can do it very quickly without using more dangerous non-lethal methods of subduing people.

But again, Wolf, the headline now, again new reporting from the Associated Press, this previously unreported, unreleased study by the US Army found that the gloves worked so powerfully during m- military training exercises that participants felt intense pain, that they stopped fighting immediately, and that they feared additional exposures.

Uh, and they, and they tested these on army employees who were playing the role of combative prisoners, uh, in these, in these tests.

David, tell us more about what you learned.

Well, Alicia, I got my hands on an internal Army document which was first obtained by the National Immigration Law Center and shared with me.

It's an after-action review of this huge raid on a cannabis farm in Ventura County here just northwest of Los Angeles, which shows basically that the Border Patrol pulled the National Guard troops, which were under federal control, into that operation at the very last minute with virtually no planning or preparation, and that the results were predictably confusing and chaotic.

The Army described them as potentially dangerous, described coming into contact with hostile protesters.

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Now, these gloves do have critics.

The National Immigration Law Center, again, this is when we reported this in August, said, quote, this is a rogue agency with an $80 billion slush fund that allows them to concoct and fund new ways to visit cruelty upon our communities.

And they called it, quote, disgusting and barbaric.

But again, the Department of Homeland Security and other advocates for using these say that they can conceivably safely deescalate situations and can do it very quickly without using more dangerous non-lethal methods of subduing people.