A new report in the New York Times details that around two weeks before the 2018 midterm elections, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials, at the request of US President Donald Trump, suggested deploying a microwave, or “heat ray,” weapon at the country’s southern border to deter illegal crossings.
The Active Denial System, the Pentagon’s first non-lethal, directed-energy, counter-personnel system, became a topic of conversation during a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) meeting on October 22, 2018, after CBP personnel were instructed by Trump to take “extreme action” against migrants at the US-Mexico border, according to the New York Times.
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