Former Baseball Star Faces Firestorm For Border Security Comments

Published June 10, 2013 10:17pm ET



FOX NEWS LATINO — It’s unclear what exactly prompted him to do it, but now former Atlanta Braves standout third-baseman Chipper Jones is eating his words.

At least those he posted in a controversial tweet he later took back. And it had actually nothing to do with baseball. For some reason, Jones decided to chime in on the controversial national immigration and border security debate.

His take: Border security needs to be beefed up. Big time.

“Y’all think if they took all them gators they trap in Fla and La and put them in the Rio Grande, it wud stop the illegals from crossing? Jk,” he tweeted Saturday.

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