Biden Admin Assigns Border Agents Who Were Doing Their Job to Desk Duty

Remember when the left claimed fake news was a Republican political tactic? A problem to fight? Now, it’s a reason to put Border Patrol agents who were doing their job on desk duty.

According to USA Today, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has promised to deliver an expedited investigation into the agents who confronted illegal aliens at the Del Rio, Texas, migrant camp on horseback last week, telling Congress he expects an inquiry to be complete “in days. ”

“I want to assure you that we are addressing this with tremendous speed and tremendous force,” Mayorkas said Wednesday, noting a number of agents had been placed on administrative duty following the viral photos and videos. “The facts will drive the action we take.”

“It will be completed in days – not weeks,” he added.

Those kinds of assurances don’t make for a particular amount of confidence in the investigation being thorough — or, for that matter, being fair. Remember, we were told the agents were using “whips” or “lassos” against the migrants who were trying to cross the border from Ciudad Acuña, Mexico into Del Rio via the Rio Grande.

Here are two of those tweets from Sawyer Hackett, executive director of People First Future, a progressive political action committee established by former Obama-era Housing and Urban Development secretary and 2020 Democratic presidential contender Julián Castro:

Border patrol is mounted on horseback rounding up Haitian refugees with whips.

This is unfathomable cruelty towards people fleeing disaster and political ruin. The administration must stop this. pic.twitter.com/BSjT91NSj0

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 20, 2021

Here’s the video pic.twitter.com/itFwZfYN45

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) September 20, 2021

While the uninitiated (or those with a virulent case of confirmation bias) might see a lasso or a whip in the agent’s hands, those are actually the horse’s reins. As Democrat Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas — a rare border hawk on the left side of the aisle — pointed out during an appearance on CNN, the Border Patrol doesn’t use Indiana Jones-style crowd control measures.

“Certainly, we got to make sure we treat all the immigrants with respect and dignity, but I will say this. Border Patrol has had those horse brigades for a while. They’ve had them for a while, number one. Number two, they don’t carry whips, and they do not carry lassos,” Cuellar said during a Tuesday appearance on the network.