Toxic Toll: 79 Children Scarred by Tear Gas in Trump’s Border Assault

By Irina Volkov, Global1.news

At least 79 children have been burned, choked, or blinded by tear gas and pepper spray since Trump’s immigration crackdown intensified — a staggering toll buried in government data.

The youngest victim was a one-year-old. Medical records, obtained through court filings, reveal chemical agents seared into eyes, throats, and lungs during border clashes and crowded detention sweeps. These aren’t accidents. They’re the direct result of a policy that treats migrant families as a national threat.

Federal agents deployed the irritants at least 27 times in six months. Children accounted for over a third of the documented injuries. Some were targeted in facilities where tear gas seeped into holding cells. Others were strapped to their mothers when clouds of pepper spray engulfed them at ports of entry.

“She couldn’t breathe,” one Honduran mother told attorneys, describing her 4-year-old daughter clawing at her own face. The child’s medical report confirms chemical conjunctivitis.

The White House calls it “necessary force.” But pediatricians say even low-level exposure can cause permanent lung damage in infants. International law prohibits indiscriminate use of riot control agents where children are present.

Activists are now calling the injuries a form of state-sanctioned torture. Yet the administration has greenlit renewed funding for the very enforcement units accused of the attacks.

The bodies of children are bearing the signatures of a zero-tolerance doctrine. For the youngest, the American dream smells like burning pain.