Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noem “personally apologizes” to U.S. Border Patrol horse agents after falsely accusing the previous Biden administration of whipping immigrants.
Images of horse-riding agents trying to control the surge in around 14,000 Haitian immigrants who arrived in a small border town in Del Rio, Texas, went viral in September 2021. Incorrectly, he claimed that law enforcement workers were whipping illegal border guards.
Noem, Recent visit to the border of Del Riowho expressed regret to the agents, “he said it would never have happened because of the way they were treated,” said a Homeland Security source with knowledge of the situation.
The whipping charges were quickly exposed by photographers who captured the incident and were later shaken up through official customs and border security investigations.
However, after the images surfaced, and after the photos that took them denied the whipping allegations, then President Kamala Harris I said “view” Snap said, “The fact that it evoked some of the worst moments in our history is that such actions are used against the indigenous peoples of our country, and that Africa is during slavery. It has been used against deserted Americans.”
The day after the photographer dismissed the false whipping claim, then-President Joe Biden called the image “outrageous” by pledging agents to “pay.”
Noem's predecessor, Alejandro Mayorkas, was ultimately forced to return his own quick criticism of the horse's agent.
“I issued a statement without looking at the images,” he admitted to a reporter at the time.
“The horse has long reins, and the images in the photographs we all saw were horrifying the country and raised serious questions about what happened,” Mallorkas said, referring to American slavery. I said.
Almost a year after the virus incident, the whipping claim unraveled the good after discovering that there was no such behavior that day.
Still, the probe determined that the agent was “engaged in professional or dangerous behavior.”
“Whips are not part of the Border Patrol's training or equipment,” then Chris Magnus, deputy CBP committee member at the time, said at the time.
Since President Trump took office on January 20th, illegal border crossings have plummeted to historic lows.
In the first 11 days of February, Border Patrol agents have gotten their lowest monthly numbers in at least 25 years on track, seeing an average of 359 illegal immigrants exceeding a day. Post.
Border Patrol sources are pursuing Trump's decision to end the country's problematic “catch and release” program, deploy thousands of additional soldiers to the border and step up massive deportation efforts to slow down. I trust the decision.
