Border Patrol Agents Violently Remove Haitians with Horses and Reins used as Whips at Texas Border
Images and videos have surfaced of Haitian migrants being violently removed after the Biden Administration authorized the addition of 600 U.S. Border Patrol agents to respond to Del Rio, Texas. Multiple news outlets report that as the migrants were attempting to cross the river to return to the U.S. side of the border, the Border Patrol agents charged them with their horses while whipping them with their horse reins.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, attempted to push back on the reporting that the agents whipped the Haitian migrants saying that, “agents use long reins — not whips — to control their horses,” and despite photos widely circulating that depict the migrants being brutally charged and hit with both the reins and the horses.
Those horseback-riding border agents chasing down immigrants and wielding whips ... have they been fired yet?\nThis is beyond reprimands and training. \n#Haiti— Leah D. Daughtry (@Leah D. Daughtry) 1632243004
Haitians are facing several crises in their country, including Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse assassination that happened on July 7th, 2021, and a 7.2 earthquake that took place a month later. Many Haitians chose to seek refuge elsewhere after the occurrence of these destabilizing events.
Haitians are facing several crises in their country, including Haiti’s president Jovenel Moïse assassination that happened on July 7th, 2021, and a 7.2 earthquake that took place a month later. Many Haitians chose to seek refuge elsewhere after the occurrence of these destabilizing events.
The images of Haitians being treated like animals by officers on horseback are appalling.\n\nWorse still, Haitians are fleeing disaster, poverty, and political turmoil, only to be denied the legal right to an asylum claim.\n\nIt\u2019s wrong\u2014under Joe Biden or any president.— Juli\u00e1n Castro (@Juli\u00e1n Castro) 1632185434
The Biden Administration faces similar critiques the Trump Administration faced when they also turned away asylum seekers and refugees at the border.
It doesn\u2019t matter if a Democrat or Republican is President, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants.\n\nImmigration should not be a crime, and its criminalization is a relatively recent invention. This is a stain on our country.https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1439976012188692496\u00a0\u2026— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1632168723
It doesn\u2019t matter if a Democrat or Republican is President, our immigration system is designed for cruelty towards and dehumanization of immigrants.\n\nImmigration should not be a crime, and its criminalization is a relatively recent invention. This is a stain on our country.https://twitter.com/SawyerHackett/status/1439976012188692496\u00a0\u2026— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1632168723
