Biden: "They will pay" over the situation with Border Agents "running over" Haitian migrants with horses and whipping them
President Biden addressed the public Friday over a border crisis, claiming the Federal Agents seen horseback “will pay” following an investigation alleging they run the migrants over with the horses.
“Given what we saw at the border this week, have you failed? This is happening on your watch. Do you take responsibility?”
Biden on the lie that border patrol were using whips on illegal immigrants at the border:
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) September 24, 2021
"To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It's outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay." pic.twitter.com/Jx79KoYTy9
The allegations came after a video originally captured by Aljazeera and surfaced online this week. The video shows the Border Patrol Agents ride the horses along the Rio Grande allegedly running over the immigrants.
There were also reports of the border patrol using whips on the illegal aliens.
“To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay,” said the President. “There’s an investigation under way now and there will be consequences. It’s dangerous, it’s wrong. It sends the wrong message around the world.”
.@JoeBiden @KamalaHarris, the humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border is the direct result of your open-border policy. As I said in my 2020 presidential campaign, we can’t have a secure nation if we don't secure our borders.
— Tulsi Gabbard ???? (@TulsiGabbard) September 23, 2021
But the claim that Haitian immigrants were physically assaulted are not true.
The images captured by photographer Paul Ratje show the Border Patrol Agents also allegedly use whips on the migrants raised more criticism.
Border patrol is mounted on horseback rounding up Haitian refugees with whips.
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 20, 2021
This is unfathomable cruelty towards people fleeing disaster and political ruin. The administration must stop this. pic.twitter.com/BSjT91NSj0
However, what looks like a whip in the photo is actually a reign, a Border Patrol agents use to restrain the horses.
Paul Ratje debunked the accusations by saying, “Some of the Haitian men started running trying to go around the horses, and that’s when the whole thing happened. I never saw them whip anyone.”
“The agent was swinging the reigns that to someone can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the pictures.”
The US Customs and Border Patrol policy says that whips are “not issued or authorized for use.”
Border patrol is mounted on horseback rounding up Haitian refugees with whips.
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 20, 2021
This is unfathomable cruelty towards people fleeing disaster and political ruin. The administration must stop this. pic.twitter.com/BSjT91NSj0
Former Presidential Candidate Tulsi Gabbard called-out the Biden administration Wednesday night, saying the current crisis spiraling out of control along the US-Mexico is a direct result of the President’s policies.
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the humanitarian and national security crisis on the southern border is the direct result of your open-border policy. As I said in my 2020 presidential campaign, we can’t have a secure nation if we don’t secure our borders,” posted Gabbard on Twitter.