WASHINGTON (AP) — Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas said Tuesday images of what appeared to be Border Patrol agents on horseback rounding up migrants trying to cross the southern border “horrified” him, but he stopped short of calling the new influx of migrants there a crisis.
Mayorkas told CNN that “any mistreatment or abuse of a migrant is unacceptable” and added, “the pictures that I’ve observed troubled me profoundly.” But he wouldn’t explicitly say whether they reflected mistreatment or abuse, deferring instead to a promised investigation.
“That defies all of the values that we seek to instill in our people,” Mayorkas said, adding that the department will address the situation “with full force” after the investigation is complete.
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The Office of Professional Responsibility is leading the investigation, and will have personnel on the ground full-time monitoring the situation in the border town of Del Rio, Texas, which has seen an influx of thousands of Haitian migrants fleeing an unstable situation in their home country and attempting to enter the U.S. through Mexico.
From a Border Patrol source: “Agents use their reins for a lot of reasons. Primarily it's used to steer the horse, but agents will also spin them sometimes to deter people from getting too close to the horse…We are not aware of anyone being struck with the reins.” https://t.co/yxxyoAuklh pic.twitter.com/t3o3h9dJbL
— Julio Rosas (@Julio_Rosas11) September 20, 2021
"We do not carry whips and the only thing I see in their hands is reins." – Border agent to me, about this tweet https://t.co/d2cZTNkIsA
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 20, 2021
Agent adds: "BP does an excellent job when it comes to use of force training. There is no way a horse patrol unit would be whipping aliens. Whips are not issued or authorized for use."
— Peter J. Hasson (@peterjhasson) September 20, 2021
More than 6,000 Haitians and other migrants have been removed from an encampment in Del Rio, and Mayorkas predicted a “dramatic change” in the number of migrants there within the next two to four days as it continues the removal process.
The latest increase in migration at the border has prompted Republicans to renew attacks on Democrats for what they say is a failure to address a crisis at the U.S. border. But on CNN, Mayorkas declined to call the situation a “crisis,” saying only that it’s a “heartbreaking situation” and a “tremendous challenge.”
“I by no means diminish the, the humane issue that it presents, but I want to be clear that we do have a plan to address it,” he said.
Mayorkas said 600 Homeland Security employees, including from the Coast Guard, have been brought to Del Rio. He said he has asked the Defense Department for help in what may be one of the swiftest, large-scale expulsions of migrants and refugees from the United States in decades.
Speaking from Del Rio on Monday, Mayorkas warned Haitians not to come to the U.S., noting that a temporary extension in protections from deportation for Haitians was extended through July 29, those protections no longer apply to new migrants.
“If you come to the United States illegally, you will be returned. Your journey will not succeed, and you will be endangering your life and your family’s life,” he said.
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We all agree that the border needs to be secured, except you Mayorkas! Send all of the illegals back home, not by plane but by the same way they came! All of them. Send them back to Mexico and see how those Mexican’s feel when there is an invasion to their country. We are told to wear masks, maybe two maybe three, and get vaccinated, although the vaccinations may not work, and Mayorkas is letting only people who he feels that will be Democrats and not Republicans invade us. He would not let the Cubans come but all of Honduras and SA is on its way. All Haitians are returned. Mayorkas you are the sickest of the sickest, insane morons in this administration.
Good point. WE keep hearing the left whine about the “Environmental impact”, because of all those gas guzzling vehicles etc. BUT HOW MUCH GAS Is being used, to KEEP FLYING THESE FOLKS BACK HOME???
He is just another YES man, and doing what they tell him to do. Everything he does and says comes from above him.
If these illegals tried to do this in other countries, they may not be alive to talk about it! So if our Border Patrol needs to stop them, in any way, they should! Mayorkas, this is your problem, and we need to fix it now.
Biden Admin Lying To America: Haitians Are Being Freed Into The US On A ‘Very, Very Large Scale’
Homeland Security chief Alejandro Mayorkas should have just asked them to go home, maybe they would have… NOT. BUT The releases come amid a quick effort to empty the camp under a bridge that, according to some estimates, held more than 14,000 people over the weekend were released in Del Rio town of 35,000 people.
THIS IS why, for years, i have been saying WE NEED TO LAY A MINEFIELD ALONG ITS ENTIRE LENGTH!!!!!
You know, Mr. Mayorkas (and Mr. Biden), if you BUILT THE DAMN WALL, none of this would be happening!
What horrifies me is the fact that Mayorkas, Biden, Harris and the rest of the Democrats care more about the illegals crossing the border than the American citizens that have to put up with this ****
Which makes you wonder, WHY WOULD ANY AMERICAN vote for the dems!
lil ******* was horrified by 15,000 Haitians infiltrating our country, he was by the perceived injustice…which was wrong.
It’s the horrid Dem Party anti American anti constitution totalitarian govt policies & the inexcusable go along to get along attitude of GOP that are horrifying to US citizens.
Migrants countries of origin are solely & totally responsible for their citizens welfare & absolutely no foreign national is allowed under US law to just willfully enter or stay in US.
Minor foreign nationals must be returned to child service authorities in their home countries instead of haphazardly handed over to illegal aliens or other unvetted unreliable people in US.
US citizens must raise hell & demand that political leadership do whatever is necessary to track down & start deporting without bogus judicial delays the millions of foreign nationals illegally in this country along with any of their minor children illegally born here.
We citizens cannot & will not tolerate mass migration that makes us “foreigners” in our own country or suffer the economic, social & cultural bankruptcy of becoming the dumping ground for foreign nationals from around the world whose govts must be universally condemned & forced out of power if they won’t provide basic care, safety & security for their own people for which they receive billions $ in aid.
Unfortunately, there are just too DAMN MANY whiners, peacenicks and bleeding heart libtards, to ever ‘shout’ loud enough, for our govt to FINALLY GET IT THROUGH THEIR HEADS, that we WANT a secure border.
I’m not going to pay my taxes to the federal gov’mt because none of the feds are doing their job!!!
Why do American citizens have to keep throwing away our hard earned money? We pay for protection, security, military weapons (left in Afghanistan) ; huge government wasteful spending bills that most Americans don’t want to pass, all bcuz of the debt & inflation crisis that the Biden administration has forced us into. We the people say… Enough is Enough!! I’ve stopped paying my taxes due to this HUGE WASTEFUL SPENDING!!! SMH
I’d love to see you try.