The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is demanding a meeting with President Biden after controversial photos from the southern border showed Border Patrol agents rounding up Haitian illegal immigrants on horseback.
Border Patrol officials have rejected that characterization, including Art Del Cueto, president of National Border Patrol Council Vice, the union representing Border Patrol agents. He said that agents do not carry whips. Fox News. They don't carry whips. They don't get assigned whips. What they do is a training technique that has been shown to them to make sure that no one takes over their horse.
Del Cueto continued:"It was to protect the horse, to protect the rider, and to protect the individual that was trying to cause chaos and knock down that rider from that horse. So they twirl the reins to protect everything and make sure everything's done correctly. But nobody was getting whipped, but some members of the media are sure pushing that narrative and our agency and our administration isn't helping much by not saying something about it."Rep.
"The picture you’re talking about, at least the one I have seen, is the rein, the rein of the horse," Cuellar said."What are they supposed to do, just stand there and let everybody come in?"called for an investigation into her administration’s handling of the migrant surge. "What I saw depicted about those individuals on horseback treating human beings the way they were is horrible," Harris told reporters."I fully support what is happening right now, which is a thorough investigation."
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