Retired Mounted Border Patrol Supervisor Debunks Dems’ ‘Whipping’ Narrative

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A U.S. Border Patrol officer cuts off the way of a migrant asylum seeker as he is trying to return to the United States along the Rio Grande River after having crossed from the United States into Mexico to buy food, as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico September 19, 2021.

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The Biden administration and Democratic lawmakers have bought into a lie about the Border Patrol agents doing their best to address the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Del Rio, Texas.

The lie — that mounted Border Patrol agents were recorded “whipping” Haitian migrants as they tried to cross the Rio Grande into the U.S. — was spread by partisan journalists and activists on Twitter, and quickly picked up White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki. This despite the fact that none of the existing photo and video evidence show any migrants being struck with what the mainstream press now admit were reins, not “whips,” as they initially claimed.

Isaac Schorr

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Isaac Schorr

Isaac Schorr is an editor at Mediaite and a 2023–2024 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow at the Fund for American Studies.

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