[HOTAIR] "Those people will pay," Joe
The Big GuyBiden
...46th president of the U.S. Former Senator-for-Life from Delaware, an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body....promised, making the Border Patrol a bigger target for the president than the Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, apparently. Biden got confronted in his presser this morning over the border crisis, with one news hound pressing him to explain how his promises of humane treatment square with the images seen from Del Rio. Biden seized on the misinformation about alleged whippings by the Border Patrol’s mounted units, promising "consequences" for the agents in question:
Our pal Guy Benson notes the contrast between Biden’s assessment of American law enforcement and the "business"-minded people currently reinstating amputations in Afghanistan:
First, how appropriate is it for Biden to threaten these agents with "consequences" before any due process takes place, let alone some due diligence? All of this nonsense has been driven by photographs that don’t show anyone being whipped at all, a point that the photographer himself makes to anyone who will listen to him:
The photographs, which were taken Sunday, appear to show agents on horses with a whip in hand. The photos caused outrage because from certain angles, it appears to show Border Patrol whippingmigrantscolonists, but photographer Paul Ratje said he and his colleagues never saw agents whipping anyone.
"Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses," Ratje said.
Ratje is a photographer based in Las Cruces and has been in Del Rio since Friday. He said took the photographs from the Mexican side.
"I’ve never seen them whip anyone," Ratje said. "He was swinging it, but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture."
Or it can be misconstrued deliberately for a president who’s desperate for a distraction. Biden’s using the Border Patrol agents as scapegoats to distract from the border crisis Biden and his administration created. It’s as simple as that, and Biden is getting cover for that distraction campaign by national media outlets who prefer narratives to truth. Biden’s need for a distraction intersects nicely with their preference of a narrative that immigration enforcement is by its nature racist and inhumane. Ergo, we have this absurd disgrace.
The union representing these Border Patrol agents will no doubt push back hard on this false narrative and presidential smear. Will those same national media outlets report this when the narrative collapses? I’ll believe it when I see it.
DHS Secretary Alejandros Mayorkas Considers Eliminating Border Horse Patrol Citing 'Systemic Racism'
[BREITBART] Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandros Mayorkas signaled he would consider getting rid of the Border Horse Patrol entirely, citing their behavior as the "worst elements" of "systemic racism
...the idea that the nation is racist to the core, always was, and always will be. 330 million Americans live in Selma, Alabama in 1965, and we're never, ever leaving..." in the United States.
During the daily press briefing at the White House, Mayorkas was repeatedly questioned about images captured on the border of agents on horses confronting Haitian
"Those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism," Mayorkas said.
When asked if he would get rid of the horse patrol unit entirely, Mayorkas said he would "take a look" at the possibility.