Maxine Waters calls Haiti migrant treatment 'worse than what we witnessed in slavery'

'I'm not just unhappy with the cowboys, who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them,' Waters said. 'I'm unhappy with the administration.'

Congresswoman Maxine Waters said the images and videos of Border Patrol agents on horseback confronting Haitian refugees at the border is"worse than what we witnessed in slavery."

"I'm pissed. I'm unhappy and I'm not just unhappy with the cowboys, who were running down Haitians and using their reins to whip them," Waters added."I'm unhappy with the administration." "We are saying to the president and everybody else, 'You got to stop this madness,'" Congresswoman Maxine Waters said about the treatment of Haitian migrants at the southern border. Above, Waters is seen at a meeting on Capitol Hill on July 30, 2020, in Washington, D.C.On Wednesday, Waters criticized the Biden administration, suggesting that it was taking an approach to immigration similar to the Trump administration.

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