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The photos created a sensation with many claiming the agent was using a whip on the Haitian migrants. Ratje said "I've never seen them whip anyone." He claimed the agent was merely twirling the horse's rein. Referring to the rein, Ratje said, "He was swinging it. But I didn't see him actually take—whip someone with it." [9] [10]
In September 2021, while mounted Border Patrol agents in Del Rio, Texas, responded to an influx of refugees from Haiti crossing the Mexico–United States border, a photograph was captured of an agent appearing to use his bridle reins as a whip against a Haitian migrant. U.S. President Joe Biden said, "To see people treated like they did ...
White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday called pictures that appeared to show a U.S. Border Patrol agent on horseback with a whip to deter migrants "horrific," but declined to say what ...
CIUDAD ACUNA, Mexico (Reuters) -The White House on Monday criticized the use of horse reins to threaten Haitian migrants after images circulated of a U.S. border guard on horseback charging at the ...
In 2017, efforts to end TPS by the national government and the Trump administration began and about 5,500 Haitian refugees were deported. In November 2018, the Trump administration announced that the temporary protection status program would be ending for the approximate 60,000 Haitians that were currently protected by this status and had not ...
The Haitian refugee crisis, which began in 1991, saw the US Coast Guard collect Haitian refugees and take them to a refugee camp at Guantanamo Bay. [1] They were fleeing by boat after Jean-Bertrand Aristide , the democratically elected president of Haiti , was overthrown and the military government was persecuting his followers. [ 2 ]
I moved it to September 2021 Haitian migrant photo controversy both because Whip Gate was less neutral, and because I didn't see evidence of it being widely used in reliable sources. The links from other pages will be automatically fixed by a bot. Ganesha811 ( talk ) 18:44, 26 April 2022 (UTC) [ reply ]
English: The border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The border runs approximately horizontally through the middle of the picture. The photo was taken from Grand-Bois, in the Haitian municipality (commune) of Cornillon.