Border Patrol agents on horseback herding Haitian migrants with whips?

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White House says images of Border Patrol with apparent whip are 'obviously horrific'

20 September 2021

White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called pictures that appeared to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to deter migrants "horrific," but declined to say what consequences there should be for the agent's actions. "I have seen some of the footage. I don't have the full context. I can't imagine what context would make that appropriate, but I don't have additional details," she told reporters at the daily White House briefing. "I don't think anyone seeing that footage would think it's acceptable or appropriate." A picture by photographer Paul Ratje showed the agent ...

White House says images of Border Patrol with apparent whip are 'obviously horrific’

Press secretary Jen Psaki called the images "horrible," but said she could not yet address what the consequences would be.

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‘Extremely troubling’: Investigation launched into border agents on horseback seen chasing migrants

20 September 2021

U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility has launched a formal investigation into Border Patrol agents after footage emerged showing them on horseback, menacingly using what appeared to be whips on migrants seeking asylum along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Department of Homeland Security, which said a full probe would help “define the appropriate disciplinary actions to be taken,” has also dispatched additional personnel to oversee future border patrol operations over what’s become a sprawling, makeshift encampment of Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, seeking entry in the United States. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility is ...

‘Extremely troubling’: Investigation launched into border agents on horseback seen chasing migrants

The Department of Homeland Security has also sent extra personnel to oversee the situation in Texas.

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U.S. begins removing Haitian migrants, but they continue to flock to Texas border

192 September 2021

A week after Haitian migrant Junior Desterville, 30, and his family had made it all the way from Chile to the burgeoning migrant camp here on the U.S. banks of the Rio Grande, the shaggy-haired mechanic set back out to the Mexican side early Sunday to buy food for his hungry wife and 4-year-old daughter, Nayalla. By noon, Desterville, dressed in a blue T-shirt and black shorts, had waded back north through the chest-high water to return successfully from Ciudad Acuña as Mexican police and Texas state troopers sought to block ongoing river crossings by hundreds of incoming migrants. Making ...

U.S. begins removing Haitian migrants, but they continue to flock to Texas border

The Border Patrol confronts massive, growing camp of Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas.

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