{"id":1516071,"date":"2022-06-14T20:20:01","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1516071"},"modified":"2022-06-14T20:20:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T00:20:11","slug":"biden-admin-to-discipline-border-patrol-agents-who-were-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-whipping-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-to-discipline-border-patrol-agents-who-were-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-whipping-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin To Discipline Border Patrol Agents Who Were Cleared Of Wrongdoing In \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\">30<\/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%2Fbiden-admin-to-discipline-border-patrol-agents-who-were-cleared-of-wrongdoing-in-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=1516071&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--><p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is reportedly preparing to discipline U.S. Border Patrol agents who were on horseback when they rode up on illegal aliens last fall.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes after the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/04\/14\/border-patrol-agent-whip-probe-is-a-500-page-report-union\/\">reported<\/a> in April that the agents had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but were still under an administrative review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe [Department of Homeland Security\u2019s] Office of the Inspector General, they had first crack at it,\u201d Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council, told the newspaper. \u201cThey determined there was no criminal activity that was done so they closed out their investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin tweeted late Tuesday afternoon that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was planning to discipline the agents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPer federal source, DHS is preparing to discipline multiple horseback Border Patrol agents who were accused of \u2018whipping\u2019 Haitian migrants in Del Rio last summer. I\u2019m told DHS will imminently allege \u2018administrative violations\u2019, agents will be able to respond,\u201d Melugin wrote. \u201cPer federal source, this announcement is expected to come down any day now. It\u2019s unclear what \u2018administrative violations\u2019 the BP agents will be accused of, but they are not being accused of any criminal conduct. The horseback unit involved is based out of Carrizo Springs, TX.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Per federal source, this announcement is expected to come down any day now. It\u2019s unclear what \u201cadministrative violations\u201d the BP agents will be accused of, but they are not being accused of any criminal conduct. The horseback unit involved is based out of Carrizo Springs, TX.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bill Melugin (@BillFOXLA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BillFOXLA\/status\/1536847358801108992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been nearly 9 months since this incident took place,\u201d Melugin added. \u201cThe agents have been taken off their normal duties and have not been allowed to have contact w\/ migrants since. President Biden assured the public at the time that \u2018there will be consequences\u2019 for the agents involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photographer whose photos of the agents went viral late last year said in an interview that he never saw the agents whip anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve never seen them whip anyone,\u201d photographer Paul Ratje <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/photographer-who-took-horseback-border-patrol-photos-ive-never-seen-them-whip-anyone\">said<\/a>. \u201cHe was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you\u2019re looking at the picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire reported at the time:<\/p>\n<p><em>While journalists claimed the photos showed Border Patrol agents were \u201cwhipping\u201d migrants, the photos actually show split reins, not whips. Split reins are used to direct the horse and hang loosely down the horse\u2019s shoulders. When a horse makes a sudden movement, those strips of leather will naturally flow outward, which is what was depicted in the images. In no picture was a Border Patrol agent holding a whip or even holding the reins in a whip-like fashion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In one of the videos, a Border Patrol agent can be seen spinning the rein, but no contact was made with the immigrant approaching the horse.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Border Patrol agent told Townhall that agents use their reins for a variety of reasons and that \u201cprimarily it\u2019s used to steer the horse, but agents will also spin them sometimes to deter people from getting too close to the horse\u2026We are not aware of anyone being struck with the reins.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat President Joe Biden\u2019s administration is reportedly preparing to discipline U.S. Border Patrol agents who were on horseback when they rode up on illegal aliens last fall. The news comes after the New York Post reported in April that the agents had been cleared of criminal wrongdoing, but were still under an administrative review. \u201cThe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1516083,"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-1516071","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\/1516071","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1516071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1516071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1516071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1516071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1516071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}