Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has “personally apologized” to US Border Patrol’s horseback agents after the previous Biden administration wrongly accused them of whipping migrants.
Images of the horse-riding agents trying to control a surge of roughly 14,000 Haitian migrants who arrived at the small border town of Del Rio, Texas, went viral in September 2021 — and top members of the then-Biden administration and Democrat lawmakers jumped to conclusions and wrongly asserted that the law-enforcement workers were whipping the illegal border-crossers.
Noem, during a recent visit to the Del Rio border, expressed regret to the agents “for the way they were treated and mentioned that it should have never happened,” said a Homeland Security source with knowledge of the situation to The Post.
The whipping accusations had been swiftly debunked by the photographer who captured the incident and later through an official Customs and Border Protection investigation.
Yet just days after the images surfaced — and after the photog who took them denied the whipping allegations — then-Vice President Kamala Harris told the “View” that the snaps “invoked images of some of the worst moments of our history, where that kind of behavior has been used against the Indigenous people of our country, it has been used against African Americans during times of slavery.”
Then-President Joe Biden also called the images “outrageous,” pledging that the agents “will pay,” the day after the...
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