{"id":1261299,"date":"2022-02-01T12:07:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1261299"},"modified":"2022-02-01T12:07:37","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T17:07:37","slug":"lawmakers-demand-answers-from-biden-administration-on-2021-border-patrol-whipping-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-demand-answers-from-biden-administration-on-2021-border-patrol-whipping-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Demand Answers From Biden Administration On 2021 Border Patrol \u2018Whipping\u2019 Incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flawmakers-demand-answers-from-biden-administration-on-2021-border-patrol-whipping-incident%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1261299&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A group of House Republicans sent a letter Monday to the Biden Administration demanding they \u201ccorrect the false narrative that United States Border Patrol agents \u2018whipped\u2019 Haitian migrants\u201d attempting to illegally enter the U.S. in September.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Texas Rep. Chip Roy, along with six other congressional republicans, are calling on the administration to immediately release the findings of Custom and Border Protections (CBP) Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) \u201cinvestigative work\u201d on the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor four months, the Biden Administration and your Department have gone without even apologizing to the agents that were smeared,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/roy.house.gov\/sites\/roy.house.gov\/files\/Roy%20DHS%20Haitian%20migrant%20investigation%20ltr%2001.31.21%20%283%29.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">letter<\/a>, addressed to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas, states. \u201cThe widespread narrative of whipping based on a demonstrable lie \u2013 especially by members of this administration \u2013 demands that the public record be finalized by publicly disclosing the \u2018investigative work\u2019 conducted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe American people deserve transparency from their government, and the United States Border Patrol deserves defense from their Department\u2019s Secretary against unfounded accusations,\u201d the letter continued.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/report-on-texas-horse-patrol-incident-may-never-materialize\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> recently that a DHS official who spoke on the condition of anonymity said they \u201cdoubt that the current administration will release this report on the horse patrol incident because it makes the administration look terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sorting through my footage from the border. I was in the river during the viral incident between a Haitian migrant and mounted CBP agent. It\u2019s shaky \u2013 but here\u2019s what I captured. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fnvxSU83tO\">pic.twitter.com\/fnvxSU83tO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Blake Morgan (@StorytellerSBM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StorytellerSBM\/status\/1441450559995736069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey essentially convicted the mounted agents based upon a lie, which the investigation after 120 days would surely have revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Border patrol agents came under fire in September after images showed the agents swinging reins in the air as migrants attempted to illegally cross into the U.S.. While none of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/video-ap-border-patrol-whipping-haitian-migrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">videos or photos<\/a> posted to social media actually depicted any migrants being whipped, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/media-cbp-agents-horses-whips-haitian-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">several on the left<\/a> and in the media claimed the migrants were whipped. Vice News declared agents were \u201cwhipping Haitian migrants\u201d in a tweet but in-story claimed the agents were simply \u201cswinging whips\u201d in the faces of migrants. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/27\/new-york-times-corrects-claim-border-patrol-whipped-haitian-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: NYT Corrects Claim That Border Patrol Used Reins To \u2018Whip\u2019 Haitian Migrants)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MSNBC host Joy Reid <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/21\/media-cbp-agents-horses-whips-haitian-migrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> the agents were given \u201cwhips, which come from the slave era\u201d to \u201cuse on humans.\u201d Democratic California Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/22\/maxine-waters-accusations-border-patrol-whipping-haitian-migrants-worse-witnessed-slavery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maxine Waters<\/a> said the images were \u201cworse than what we witnessed in slavery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photographer Paul Ratie, who captured the infamous images, later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/paul-ratje-photographer-migrants-not-being-whipped\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confirmed he never actually saw<\/a> any agents \u201cwhipping\u201d migrants and that his photos were being misinterpreted, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/local\/el-paso-news\/photographer-behind-controversial-photos-speaks-exclusively-to-ktsm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KTSM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses,\u201d he reportedly said. \u201cI\u2019ve never seen them whip anyone. He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you\u2019re looking at the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of House Republicans sent a letter Monday to the Biden Administration demanding they \u201ccorrect the false narrative that United States Border Patrol agents \u2018whipped\u2019 Haitian migrants\u201d attempting to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}