{"id":1548558,"date":"2022-07-11T11:34:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1548558"},"modified":"2022-07-11T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T15:34:11","slug":"we-finally-have-a-guilty-verdict-in-the-migrant-whipping-story-but-it-isnt-border-patrol-its-the-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-finally-have-a-guilty-verdict-in-the-migrant-whipping-story-but-it-isnt-border-patrol-its-the-media\/","title":{"rendered":"We Finally Have A Guilty Verdict In The Migrant Whipping Story But It Isn\u2019t Border Patrol, It\u2019s The Media"},"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\">38<\/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%2Fwe-finally-have-a-guilty-verdict-in-the-migrant-whipping-story-but-it-isnt-border-patrol-its-the-media%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=1548558&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/11933500215_1ea77f2fd2_k-e1657546964872.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Nearly 10 months after <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/24\/here-are-the-conspiracy-theorists-who-spread-the-lie-that-mounted-border-agents-whipped-illegal-aliens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">corporate media and Democrat conspiracy theorists<\/a> flooded front pages, the White House press briefing room, and Twitter with assertions that Border Patrol agents whipped migrants, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/document\/report\/cbp-office-professional-responsibility-del-rio-horse-patrol-unit-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection investigation<\/a> found no evidence that the horseback unit used their reins to strike at the influx of Haitians illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. And in fact, it was the media\u2019s fake story that sparked an investigation in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Viral photos and videos in September of 2021 appeared to show Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, corralling several migrants who were trying to cross the water to get to the United States. These images and clips were accompanied by grandiose accusations that the border law enforcement agents were using \u201cwhips\u201d against the fearful migrants. <\/p>\n<p>Some media grifters such as MSNBC\u2019s\u00a0Joy Reid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/joy-reid-border-patrol-whip-narrative\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">parroted those speculations<\/a> as fact and suggested that \u201cwhips which come from the slave era, slavery era, were part of the package that we issue to any sort of law enforcement or government sanction personnel.\u201d Other outlets, such as The New York Times, said the agents used \u201cthe reins of their horses to strike at running migrants.\u201d The legacy paper tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/28\/new-york-times-retroactively-scrubs-whipping-lie-from-border-article\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">scrub that blatant lie<\/a> from an article later when the photographer who took the viral photos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/local\/el-paso-news\/photographer-behind-controversial-photos-speaks-exclusively-to-ktsm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> he never saw Border Patrol use their leather reins to whip anyone. <\/p>\n<p>But even that didn\u2019t stop President Joe Biden and his team from <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/09\/24\/biden-ramps-up-border-patrol-whipping-lie-its-outrageous-and-horrible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">spreading the whipping lie as truth<\/a>. Nor did it stop the corrupt media from amplifying the White House\u2019s frenzy over the faux incident. <\/p>\n<p>It was these reports, CBP admitted in its 511-page findings, that inspired its Office of Professional Responsibility to launch an investigation into the horse patrol unit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn September 20, 2021, the Office of Professional Responsibility initiated this investigation after reviewing media reports depicting potential misconduct that took place the previous day,\u201d the report stated.<\/p>\n<p>After assessing video and photo evidence and interviewing more than 30 eyewitnesses along with the agents in question for nearly a year, CBP investigators finally came to a conclusion contrary to what the media forced on Americans for weeks. The agency found only that the unit in question lacked command, control, and communication. As a result, at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/defense-national-security\/four-border-patrol-agents-being-disciplined-for-deeply-offensive-conduct-in-horse-whipping-incident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">four agents<\/a> have been disciplined for intimidation, inappropriate language, and \u201cadministrative violations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBP admitted that even though at least one agent acted unsafely and yelled denigrating remarks at the attempted illegal border-crossers, \u201cthere is no evidence that any migrants were forced to return to Mexico or denied entry to the United States\u201d based on the actions of any border agents. Furthermore, \u201cThe investigation found no evidence that agents struck any person with horse reins.\u201d It doesn\u2019t get much clearer than that.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that border agents were attacking migrants with their reins was a suspect narrative from the beginning. Several people with knowledge about law enforcement tactics at the border and horses quickly questioned the assumption that border agents were using their gear to force migrants away from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>In this, as in most cases, the corporate media are more guilty than the people they were excoriating in their pages and on their airwaves. Not only did they lie about the horse patrol unit\u2019s actions, but they gave attention to it only because it distracted from Democrats\u2019 border fiasco while fueling their broader anti-law-enforcement narratives.  <\/p>\n<p>More than 1.5 million illegal border-crossers have been apprehended since the beginning of this fiscal year. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/22\/bidens-open-border-policies-are-deadly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Migrants and law enforcement agents<\/a> alike have died thanks to Biden\u2019s humanitarian crisis at the border. Yet the only significant coverage the disaster down south has received came from a fake narrative that shifted the blame from Biden to the overworked agencies at the border.<\/p>\n<p>The guilty party in the Haitian migrant whipping story isn\u2019t Border Patrol. It\u2019s the corporate media that lied about them to distract from the real story.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire and Fox News. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 10 months after corporate media and Democrat conspiracy theorists flooded front pages, the White House press briefing room, and Twitter with assertions that Border Patrol agents whipped migrants, a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"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-1548558","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\/1548558","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548558\/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=1548558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}