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EXCLUSIVE: Home Republican Chief Kevin McCarthy,R-Calif., on Friday known as on President Biden and Vice President Harris to apologize to Border Patrol brokers who had been falsely accused of whipping Haitian migrants — after Customs and Border Safety discovered they didn’t whip anybody or hit anybody with their reins.
“Our courageous Border Patrol brokers work to safe our border day-after-day even if President Biden makes their mission tougher and extra harmful due to his unconscionable assist for a wide-open southern border,” McCarthy mentioned in a press release to Fox Information Digital.
“Their popularity was smeared by President Biden, Vice President Harris, and their allies within the media – and they need to all apologize to those Border Patrol brokers,” he mentioned.
McCarthy was reacting to the announcement by Customs and Border Safety (CBP) of the conclusion of the months-long investigation into the incident in Del Rio, Texas in September the place brokers on horseback encountered Haitian migrants crossing the river. It was in the course of a large migrant disaster the place hundreds had gathered underneath a bridge in Del Rio.
The incident made headlines as reporters and lawmakers noticed the reins the brokers had been twirling to manage the horses and misinterpreted them as whips. It was a declare rapidly debunked, however repeated by the President days later.
“To see individuals handled like they did, horses barely working over, individuals being strapped — it is outrageous,” Biden instructed reporters, making a whipping movement together with his hand. “I promise you, these individuals can pay. There might be an investigation underway now and there might be penalties. There might be penalties.”
Harris, in the meantime, mentioned she was “deeply troubled” by the incident.
“What I noticed depicted about these people on horseback treating human beings the best way they had been, was horrible,” Harris instructed reporters. “And I absolutely assist what is occurring proper now, which is an intensive investigation into precisely what’s going on there. However human beings ought to by no means be handled that approach. And I am deeply troubled about it. And I am going to even be speaking to Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas about it as we speak.”… (Read more)
