A Border Patrol agent who was frolicked to dry by the Biden administration for months on false expenses of whipping unlawful immigrants on the southern border has now obtained a Border Patrol achievement award.
In September 2021, pictures circulated of Border Patrol brokers on horseback making an attempt to spherical up unlawful immigrants from Haiti. The photographs had been initially interpreted by some as displaying an agent whipping the unlawful immigrants.
The incident was denounced by President Joe Biden, who promised to punish the brokers accountable.
Nonetheless, a subsequent investigation revealed that the horses’ reins had been the objects that, on the angle some pictures had been taken, seemed to be whips. Regardless of that, the brokers below investigation had been discovered to have used “pointless” pressure, with one agent discovered to have maneuvered his horse “unsafely” and used “denigrating and inappropriate language,” based on the New York Submit. Biden has by no means apologized to the brokers.
The agent was among the many many members of Customs and Border Patrol to obtain an award, based on the Submit.
The agent’s identify has by no means been launched, however the Submit stated a supply it didn’t identify on the Division of Homeland Safety confirmed that the agent was amongst these awarded.
“I discover it hilarious and ridiculous that just about three years later, a Border Patrol agent who was accused of being racist and so vilified by this Biden administration now wins an achievement award for his efforts in stopping smuggling, earlier than he will get a public apology,” the Submit quoted its DHS supply it didn’t identify as saying.
The agent was initially taken off the border and banned from working with unlawful immigrants.
As an alternative, he was assigned to intelligence work to fight human smuggling. His work in that space led to his award, the DHS supply stated.
He ultimately was permitted to return to working alongside the border and allowed to work together with unlawful immigrants, based on the DHS supply.
Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was amongst these vilifying the brokers.
Nonetheless, in a 2022 report, the Heritage Basis famous that whilst brokers had been being condemned for what they didn’t do, proof had emerged that the outcry in opposition to them was incorrect.
“We obtained some communications that had been despatched to Mayorkas proper earlier than he went up and gave that basically heated speech on the White Home,” stated Mike Howell, Director of Heritage’s Oversight Undertaking.
Howell stated the Heritage Basis sued to get the paperwork that advised what went on behind the scenes.
“One such communication that we discovered was an e-mail from his high press staffer, a lady by the identify of Marsha Espinosa. She had forwarded to Mayorkas an article. On this article was a remark from the photographer that was there, the one supply that was neither border patrol or a Haitian, unlawful alien. The photographer stated there was no whipping, ‘I noticed no whipping,’” Howell stated.
“Marsha Espinosa highlighted this half for Secretary Mayorkas, and Mayorkas went up and gave his press convention and didn’t make use of this data that might’ve cleared the border patrol brokers in gentle of this public outcry and these false accusations being levied at them from media, Democrat congressmen, and even the president of america,” he stated.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
