U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas got into a spat with White House reporter April Ryan on Thursday after she accused the federal government of "whipping" Haitian migrants crossing the U.S. southern border in 2021.
After she brought up the old allegations, which the government debunked in an official investigation, Mayorkas corrected her and declared it never happened. The reporter again insisted it did, which prompted Mayorkas to state for the record that her claims at this briefing were "corrected."
The exchange happened at the Thursday White House press briefing, during which Mayorkas came out to give the press an appraisal of the chaos ongoing at the U.S.-Mexico border and what the Biden administration plans to do about it.
BORDER PATROL CHIEF FUMED AT BIDEN ADMIN'S HANDLING OF WHIPPING CONTROVERSY, EMAILS SHOW
Ryan, the White House correspondent from The Grio used the opportunity to bring up the nearly two-year-old charge that federal agents on horseback were "whipping" Haitian migrants who had surged to the border.
Pictures taken of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents on horseback in Del Rio, Texas in 2021, prompted the accusation. The agents were photographed using "split reins" – which are whip-like in appearance, to control their horses and lead fleeing migrants into U.S. custody.
The distinct reins encouraged many on the left, including President Joe Biden himself, to accuse Border Patrol of whipping the migrants. At the time,...
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