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Remember those screaming headlines about migrants and border 'whips'?
American Thinker.com ^ | December 2, 2021 | William Davis

Posted on 12/02/2021 2:46:08 AM PST by Kaslin

If you haven’t heard anything about Border Patrol agents on horseback allegedly “whipping” migrants lately, it’s because the anti-borders Left and the corporate media just had another narrative blow up in its face.

After a weeks-long moral panic about Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) agents allegedly mistreating migrants, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is no longer pursuing an investigation into those agents. The DHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) announced earlier this month that they will not pursue an investigation of the agents, who were photographed on horseback in front of Haitian migrants earlier this year.

At the time, anti-borders groups and Biden administration officials falsely claimed that the agents were engaged in whipping the migrants, despite statements from the photographer that the agents were not using whips, but were merely holding onto their reins. Still, the photos were used to engineer not only a smear campaign against innocent law enforcement officials, but dramatic policy changes within DHS.

When the photos first started circulating across the internet, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas initially defended the agents as doing their jobs. After the White House took a different tack, Mayorkas quickly backtracked and promised a swift investigation into agents which would be completed in a matter of days. According to USAToday:

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: illegalmigrants

1 posted on 12/02/2021 2:46:08 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Round em up. Ship em out.


2 posted on 12/02/2021 2:51:36 AM PST by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.p)
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To: Kaslin

This was an attempt by the Biden Marxist domestic enemy occupation to rid the border of agents so the invasion can continue unimpeded


3 posted on 12/02/2021 3:50:43 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Kaslin

Is there anything honest, authentic or true about this administration? They came into office through fraud and cheating. They are governing the same way.


4 posted on 12/02/2021 3:57:42 AM PST by Blennos ( )
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To: Kaslin

This truth will be ignored and the lie will persist (in the hearts & minds of liberals).


5 posted on 12/02/2021 7:09:27 AM PST by jdsteel ("A Republic, Madam, if you can keep it." Sorry Ben, looks like we blew it.)
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To: jdsteel

“It’s not a lie, if you believe it.”


6 posted on 12/02/2021 7:10:16 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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