Border brokers who have been smeared by White Home officers and distinguished Democrat figures after being falsely accused of ‘whipping’ Haitian unlawful immigrants have reportedly been cleared by officers.
Regardless of it being a media-wide controversy in September of 2021, information of the exoneration has to date solely been reported by Fox Information based on conservative media watchdog NewsBusters.
Lucas Tomlinson, a reporter for Fox Information Channel’s Particular Report, indicated the community “has discovered that officers have cleared the horse-mounted border patrol companies of wrongdoing after they have been accused of whipping migrants in September and inserting them on probation.”
The controversy started with photographs circulating on social media that purported to point out a Border Patrol agent utilizing a “whip” to corral predominantly Haitian unlawful immigrants who have been crossing the border in Texas.
What’s unfathomable is the stupidity concerned in considering you’d get away with mendacity.
Hey @TwitterSupport – You could pull this tweet and ban this clown.
He’s spreading a ‘large lie.’
Right here’s the alternate angle… pic.twitter.com/70BzKUGT7B
— Rusty Weiss ?? (@rustyweiss74) September 21, 2021
RELATED: Ilhan Omar Accuses Border Patrol Brokers Of ‘Apparent Systematic Racism’ And Utilizing ‘Whips’ On Unlawful Immigrants
Border Brokers Cleared of ‘Whipping’
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Alternate angles of the identical picture made it pretty clear from the onset that border brokers weren’t ‘whipping’ anybody in any respect.
“We don’t carry whips and the one factor I see of their palms is reins,” one agent mentioned on the time.
And whereas some shops have been specializing in the agent swinging the reins ‘menacingly,’ Townhall senior author Julio Rosas spoke with one other agent then who defined such actions are executed to guard the horse and even to guard the individual from the horse.
From a Border Patrol supply: “Brokers use their reins for lots of causes. Primarily it’s used to steer the horse, however brokers may also spin them generally to discourage folks from getting too near the horse…We aren’t conscious of anybody being struck with the reins.” https://t.co/yxxyoAuklh pic.twitter.com/t3o3h9dJbL
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 20, 2021
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas shortly after the incident introduced that the border brokers had been shifted to desk responsibility and vowed an investigation can be “accomplished in days, if not weeks.”
Practically seven months later, simply final week, Republican senators urged the DHS to lastly launch the findings from that probe.
Fox Information’ newest report marks a quiet and really coincidentally timed conclusion.
??: Fox reporting that the mounted Border Patrol brokers falsely accused of “whipping” unlawful migrants in Del Rio have been cleared!
Hopefully these males are absolutely restored after being slandered by Biden and Mayorkas. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/oN1NpshQ1I
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) April 13, 2022
RELATED: Maxine Waters Says Remedy Of Haitian Unlawful Immigrants ‘Worse Than Slavery’
The place are the Apologies?
The variety of Democrats and White Home officers who owe these border brokers an apology for falsely accusing them of whipping Haitian migrants is many.
Fox Information anchor Bret Baier reminded viewers of how lengthy this course of has taken and the way essential it was to the media again in September of 2021.
“We’re simply attending to the again finish of this investigation the place the fellows aren’t being punished … and keep in mind how a lot protection was given to that second?” he remarked.
Now you gained’t hear a peep.
Not from MSNBC’s Pleasure Reid, who spoke with Consultant Ilhan Omar (D-MN) saying: “I used to be not conscious that whips – which come from the slave period, slavery period – have been a part of the bundle that we difficulty to any type of legislation enforcement or government-sanctioned personnel.”
Not from Omar herself who replied that she discovered the alleged ‘whipping’ “appalling” and claimed, “there may be clearly systematic racism at play right here.”
‘What we’ve seen was merciless, inhumane’: Rep. Omar addresses photos that seem to point out a Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to discourage migrants pic.twitter.com/ouyuAzRwFu
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 21, 2021
Nor will you seemingly hear a phrase out of fellow Squad member, Consultant Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) who mentioned, “Congress should do the work of investigating and guaranteeing accountability of the egregious and white supremacist habits of Border Patrol brokers in Del Rio Texas.”
Rep. Pressley on state of affairs at U.S. southern border: “Haitian lives are Black lives, and if we really imagine that Black lives matter, then we should reverse course.”
“The Biden administration should instantly…halt all deportations of Haitian migrants.” https://t.co/tUeqoESHTP pic.twitter.com/gJXxntTS1q
— ABC Information (@ABC) September 22, 2021
Consultant Maxine Waters (D-CA) most likely gained’t amend her feedback that the therapy of Haitian unlawful immigrants was “worse than what we witnessed in slavery” both.
“I’m pissed,” she mentioned. “I’m sad and I’m not simply sad with the cowboys who have been operating down Haitians and utilizing their reins to whip them.”
Maxine Waters peddled pretend information of Border Patrol brokers “whipping” unlawful migrants, then absurdly claimed it was “worse than slavery.” pic.twitter.com/w8EkNCNGpF
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 23, 2021
Will any reporters ask White Home press secretary Jen Psaki whether or not she nonetheless believes the photographs to be “clearly horrific”?
Jen Psaki jumped in a number of instances, as effectively. Right here she is Monday, saying, “In fact they need to by no means have the ability to do it once more…It’s clearly horrific.”
She then sarcastically says she must get extra info. #BidenBorderCrisis pic.twitter.com/1Ns85IqzNP
— John Cooper (@thejcoop) September 24, 2021
Or will they press President Biden on the matter after he threatened to make the now absolutely exonerated border brokers pay?
“To see folks handled like they did, horses barely operating over, folks being strapped – it’s outrageous,” the President had mentioned, making a whipping movement together with his hand for good measure.
“I promise you, these folks can pay,” added Biden. “There will probably be an investigation underway now and there will probably be penalties. There will probably be penalties.”
6 months in the past, Biden promised to make Border Patrol brokers “pay” for doing their jobs: “there will probably be penalties.”
Joe Biden nonetheless has not apologized. pic.twitter.com/rpSv4HbObn
— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) March 28, 2022
As a substitute, nothing however crickets coming from Democrats and the media.
A DHS official who spoke to The Washington Examiner in January advised the administration can be clever to maintain the report underneath wraps.
“I doubt that the present administration will launch this report on the horse patrol incident as a result of it makes the administration look horrible,” the official mentioned.
“They primarily convicted the mounted brokers primarily based upon a lie, which the investigation after 120 days would certainly have revealed.”
They did, nonetheless, launch the report, simply many months later than anticipated. And positive sufficient, it makes the White Home look horrible and divulges the media pushed a pretend information story primarily based upon a lie.
The brokers have been investigated and caught on desk responsibility as a result of these lies. Who’s going to be investigated and pay now that they’ve been cleared?