{"id":1569153,"date":"2022-07-25T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1569153"},"modified":"2022-07-25T06:51:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T10:51:28","slug":"william-davis-dhs-closes-shameful-chapter-with-its-whipping-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/william-davis-dhs-closes-shameful-chapter-with-its-whipping-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"William Davis: DHS Closes Shameful Chapter With Its \u201cWhipping\u201d Investigation"},"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\">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%2Fwilliam-davis-dhs-closes-shameful-chapter-with-its-whipping-investigation%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=1569153&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 id=\"article-header\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12\">\n<div class=\"contributor-img pull-left\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/columnists\/williamdavis\/\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"William Davis\" class=\"img-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/media.townhall.com\/townhall\/reu\/contributor-sm\/authorimages\/19d06b04-3cb4-4bf5-bcad-c0c1419092e8.jpeg\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p>|<\/p>\n<p>Posted: Jul 23, 2022 12:01 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<p><em>The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views of Townhall.com.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<aside id=\"aside1\" class=\"left aside-wrapper aside-wrapper-950\">\n<\/aside>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">President Joe Biden\u2019s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) closed one of the most disgraceful chapters in its history as it finally concluded an investigation into false accusations that Border Patrol agents were whipping Haitian migrants.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The nearly ten-month long investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/08\/border-agents-falsely-accused-of-whipping-migrants-punishment\/\">found<\/a> that Border Patrol agents did not use whips after viral and misleading photos and videos purportedly showed the horseback-riding agents using their reigns as whips to corral Haitian migrants at the border. While the investigation found that the agents were not carrying whips, and that Border Patrol does not even have whips as part of its equipment, the agents will face internal punishment anyway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The investigation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/jul\/8\/border-patrol-agents-cleared-whipping-illegal-immi\/\">concluded<\/a> that several of the agents used excessive force, although the final report was vague on the details. Customs and Border Patrol Commissioner Chris Magnus said some of the agents\u2019 demonstrated \u201cdiscrimination,\u201d and \u201cintolerance,\u201d but did not provide any specifics. The desperation to punish these agents who had clearly done nothing wrong seems likely to be a result of Biden\u2019s vow to <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/katiepavlich\/2021\/09\/24\/biden-says-border-patrol-agents-will-pay-n2596444\">fulfill<\/a> his promise to make the agents \u201cpay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It&#8217;s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay,\u201d Biden said after the deceptive images surfaced.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But, instead of admitting they were wrong and apologizing to the agents, the Biden Administration is doubling down on their attacks against patriotic law enforcement agents. The motivations for punishing these agents appears to be politically and ideologically-motivated. To understand why these agents are being punished for simply doing their jobs, one has to remember the inflammatory rhetoric displayed by leading administration officials and their allies in Congress after the manufactured scandal broke.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Kamala Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/harris-border-patrol-evoked-images-slavery-the-view-interview\">said<\/a> the photos \u201cinvoked\u201d images of slavery. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, after initially defending the agents, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/mayorkas-condemns-border-patrol-whipping\">said<\/a> he was \u201chorrified\u201d by the images, and vowed swift punishment. The Congressional Hispanic Caucus <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HispanicCaucus\/status\/1440069509285437449?s=20&#038;t=_2jY-9-Gj0Igc5A_iBnM9g\">called<\/a> the images \u201cdeeply disturbing and unacceptable,\u201d while the president of the NAACP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/naacp-president-demands-meeting-with-biden-over-border-patrol-whip-allegation\/ar-AAOG0Hu\">compared<\/a> the incident to \u201csome of the darkest moments in America\u2019s history,\u201d and demanded a meeting with Biden.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The smear campaign against the agents simply became too big to fail. The cabal of special interest groups, politicians, and anti-border advocates that hold heavy sway over this White House demanded that these agents be punished, and Biden was happy to acquiesce. But, this investigation has had a deep cost for the agents in question.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Once hysteria over the non-event reached critical mass, the agents were taken out of the field and assigned to desk duty. They have been subjected to an intensive 10-month investigation that Mayorkas had promised would only take days. For an administration that claims to fight for the common man, it was quick to bring the full power of the federal government down on hardworking agents who were manipulated for political agendas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cBecause of what the president said, these investigators had no choice but to find some sort of wrongdoing,\u201d National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/brandon-judd-goes-off-biden-admin-move-punish-border-agents\">said<\/a>. \u201cWe know that they did nothing wrong. We know that it was a powder keg. We know that they were sent there to do a specific job, and they did that job. Now they&#8217;re coming back to be vilified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">At the time this was all unfolding, tens of thousands of Haitian migrants were gathering at the southern border attempting to enter the U.S. Our border was being completely overwhelmed, and the Biden Administration needed a red herring to distract the American public from their failure to secure the border. So, the White House and their allies concocted a moral panic, and as a result may have done great damage to the lives and careers of these Border Patrol agents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This entire investigation was a farce meant to distract from the carnage Biden has unleashed at our border. It represents a shameful chapter in American history, and another lowlight in this administration\u2019s epic destruction of our nation\u2019s sovereignty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>William J. Davis is a communications associate for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irli.org\/\">Immigration Reform Law Institute<\/a>, a public interest law firm working to defend the rights and interests of the American people from the negative effects of mass migration. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| Posted: Jul 23, 2022 12:01 AM  The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575384,"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-1569153","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\/1569153","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=1569153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}