The caravan of Central American migrants seemed at times to have put women and children in the front when storming the U.S. border on Nov. 25, according to Kirstjen Nielsen, Department of Homeland Security secretary.
“It appears in some cases that the limited number of women and children in the caravan are being used by the organizers as ‘human shields’ when they confront law enforcement,” she said in a Nov. 26 statement. “They are being put at risk by the caravan organizers.”
