If you think the corporate press learned its lesson from that embarrassing border-agents-horsewhipping-migrants story, you’re sorely mistaken.

They’re at it again, this time falsely accusing Texas authorities of what amounts to manslaughter.

“Texas ‘physically barred’ Border Patrol agents from trying to rescue migrants who drowned,” CBS News reported on January 13, citing “federal officials.”

Sounds terrible. What a stain on the reputation of Texas!

The only problem is that state officials did no such thing.

CBS reports now that no one was “barred” from rescuing the migrants.

“The Justice Department said the three migrant drownings had already occurred when Border Patrol requested access to Shelby Park to help other migrants,” CBS conceded in a lengthy editor’s note.

The irony of the update is that it cites the Biden administration, which is responsible for the original false claim.

CBS’s story claimed originally that “a woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande on Friday while trying to enter the U.S. near a section of the southern border where Texas National Guard soldiers have prevented federal Border Patrol agents from processing and rescuing migrants.”

The report continued, citing its sources: “Federal officials and a Texas congressman said National Guard soldiers deployed by Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott did not allow Border Patrol agents to attempt to rescue the migrants.”

The congressman is Democratic representative Henry Cuellar.

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