Over two years later, Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas lastly held a personal assembly with the Border Patrol brokers that he threw beneath the bus after they have been falsely accused of whipping Haitain migrants close to Del Rio, Texas.
There was reportedly no apology from Mayorkas.
Now we have mentioned how Mayorkas was warned that the allegations have been false, however nonetheless denounced them.
Mayorkas failed to guard the brokers even after the President promised that they’d be punished earlier than any investigation. Mayorkas joined the refrain of critics in condemning the brokers for instance of “systemic racism” within the authorities.
The media went right into a frenzy regardless of a videotape exhibiting that the story was clearly false.
A photographer captured the scene, which confirmed brokers utilizing bridle reins to information their skittish horses. The complete videotape clearly exhibits the brokers utilizing the reins on their mounts, not on the migrants. Not solely did the photographer shortly deny seeing any officers whip migrants, the videotape clearly refuted that allegation. Nonetheless, for a lot of in politics and the media it didn’t matter as a result of it performed right into a racial-justice declare of the “whipping (of) Haitian asylum seekers.”
Home Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) condemned “the inappropriate use of what look like whips by Border Patrol officers on horseback to intimidate migrants.” Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) decried “pictures of inhumane remedy of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol — together with the usage of whips.” Vice President Kamala Harris emoted on “The View” about how the brutality “invoked pictures of a number of the worst moments of our historical past, the place that type of conduct has been used in opposition to the Indigenous individuals of our nation, it has been used in opposition to African People throughout instances of slavery.” Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) described the incident as “worse than what we witnessed in slavery” and “white supremacist conduct.”
President Biden rushed to specific his personal revulsion and rage, too: “It was horrible what — to see, as you noticed — to see individuals handled like they did: horses almost operating them over and folks being strapped. It’s outrageous. I promise you, these individuals pays.”
On the time, a few of us objected that the president had, as soon as once more, declared the guilt of accused individuals with out proof or investigation. The doable innocence of those officers merely didn’t matter to the president or to many within the press.
Now, with the passage of time, a few of us had hoped that Mayorkas would apologize to the brokers even when President Biden has refused to take action.
He didn’t. The brokers in any case have been simply props utilized by the media and politicians. They don’t have households or careers that have to be thought-about. They whipped migrants on the water’s edge as a result of the media and politicians wanted them to be whipping migrants.
But, Mayorkas needed to convey his love for the brokers in lastly assembly with the lads that he beforehand portrayed as Bull Connor’s on horseback.
Happily, the worldwide workers of investigative reporters at Res Ipsa was capable of finding a video of the Secretary assembly with the brokers:
