Responding to a reporter Friday asking if he had failed in his promise to end President Trump’s “assault on the dignity of immigrant communities,” …
Responding to a reporter Friday asking if he had failed in his promise to end President Trump’s “assault on the dignity of immigrant communities,” an indignant President Biden accused Border Patrol agents on horseback of “running over” and “strapping” Haitian illegal immigrants, declaring “those people will pay.” Biden was reacting to the outrage that began on social media earlier this week when a photograph of an agent on horseback, with reins flying, trying to subdue a Haitian man prompted accusations of “whipping” illegal immigrants. But the journalist who snapped the photograph said the image was wrongly interpreted, and he saw no whipping or other abuse. Further, video taken at the time of the photograph that was posted on Twitter Friday morning confirms that. But Biden declared Friday there will be “consequences” for the agents, who since then have been ordered to no longer carry out their duty to protect the border using horses, which are able to navigate terrain that is largely inaccesible to motor vehicles. “It was horrible what you saw,” Biden said Friday at the White House. “To see people treated like they did? Horses running them over? People being strapped? It’s outrageous. I promise you, those people will pay.” The president added that “an investigation is underway, and there will be consequences.” “It’s an embarrassment. It’s beyond an embarrassment. It’s dangerous, it’s wrong,” he continued. “It sends the wrong message around the world. sends the wrong message at home. It’s simply not who we are.” Biden was responding to a reporter who asked him if he was failing to live up to his promise during his campaign to “restore the moral standing” of the U.S. and “immediately end Trump’s assault on the dignity of immigrant communities.
