{"id":1524984,"date":"2022-06-21T11:04:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1524984"},"modified":"2022-06-21T11:04:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T15:04:50","slug":"heritage-foundation-sues-biden-admin-for-border-patrol-investigation-docs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/heritage-foundation-sues-biden-admin-for-border-patrol-investigation-docs\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Foundation Sues Biden Admin For Border Patrol Investigation Docs"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fheritage-foundation-sues-biden-admin-for-border-patrol-investigation-docs%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=1524984&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>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden\u2019s administration demanding the release of documents related to the investigation of mounted Border Patrol agents.<\/p>\n<p>Filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit demands the release of all documents related to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s investigation into the September 2021 incident in which mounted Border Patrol agents were falsely accused of dramatically whipping illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>It also accuses DHS of \u201cwrongfully withholding non-exempt-agency records\u201d requested by the influential conservative think tank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeritage is being denied information to which it is statutorily entitled and that is important to carrying out Heritage\u2019s functions as a non-partisan research and educational institution and publisher of news,\u201d the complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas had first backed the border patrol agents, but he later said that pictures of the \u201cwhips\u201d had \u201cprofoundly\u201d troubled him and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/border-patrol-agents-fume-dhs-punish-officers-whip-controversy\">promised<\/a> that an investigation into the agents would be\u00a0\u201ccompleted in days, if not weeks,\u201d as the suit points out.<\/p>\n<p>Senior administration officials also backed the since debunked claims. Biden went so far as to \u201cpromise\u201d that \u201cthose people will pay.\u201d Vice President Kamala Harris said she was \u201cdeeply troubled\u201d comparing the images she saw to \u201ctimes of slavery.\u201d And though the claims have been shown to be false, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/dhs-punish-border-patrol-agents-haitian-whipping-incident\">reported<\/a>\u00a0June 14 that the Biden administration is nevertheless preparing to punish the agents.<\/p>\n<p>Heritage had previously filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) asking DHS to release all correspondence and records related to its investigation of the incident, including documentation between any Biden administration officials that could suggest the investigation of the agents was politicized.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-398691\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-398691 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-864x576-1.jpg 864w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-2048x1366-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-1800x1200-1.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/GettyImages-1235368766-1200x800-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-398691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">United States Border Patrol agents on horseback tries to stop Haitian migrants from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. \u00a0(Photo by PAUL RATJE\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>After months of the Biden administration failing to return these requests, the Heritage Foundation is going on offense and suing the Biden administration, the Daily Wire has learned \u2014 an unprecedented move from a think tank that typically stays away from such high profile litigation (the think tank <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/press\/heritage-foundation-files-lawsuit-against-biden-covid-vaccine-mandate\">did sue<\/a> the Biden administration in November over the vaccine mandate).<\/p>\n<p>The effort is spearheaded by Heritage\u2019s new Oversight Project, led by former DHS oversight counsel Mike Howell, which seeks to expose the Biden administration\u2019s leftist policies.<\/p>\n<p>And in efforts to uncover the nature of the Biden administration investigation into the agents, Heritage drew on the expertise of former top DHS employees experienced in having to respond to such FOIA requests and lawsuits themselves.<\/p>\n<p>These figures, including former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection, Mark Morgan, the former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Tom Homan, the former acting director of USCIS, Joe Edlow, are now \u201cutilizing these skill sets and knowledge to go after Mayorkas,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think the American people and the Border Patrol deserve to know,\u201d Howell said.\u00a0\u201cAnd so we\u2019re stepping in and getting a judge actually involved. Filling the void.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Heritage not only hopes that the lawsuit will uncover information demonstrating the politicized nature of the investigation into the border patrol agents\u2014 the think tank looks to show conservatives in the movement that they have the ability to win such matters in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they do go ahead and discipline these agents, these documents, the communications that we are going to get will go a long way towards telling not only the Border Patrol, but everyone else what actually happened and how the political appointees and leadership were involved in this process when they really should never have been,\u201d Howell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Heritage Foundation has filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden\u2019s administration demanding the release of documents related to the investigation of mounted Border Patrol agents. Filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the suit demands the release of all documents related to the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1898522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524984","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\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}