The latest revelations about the year-long controversy over false claims that Border Patrol agents "whipped" or "strapped" Haitian migrants are likely to exacerbate already sour relations between Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and agents.
Fox News reported Tuesday how Mayorkas was told hours before a White House press conference in September 2021 that the photographer who captured a clash between Border Patrol agents and Haitian migrants in Del Rio, Texas, days earlier had said that the incident was being misconstrued.
A narrative had emerged that agents on horseback had whipped migrants and was being perpetuated by top Democrats and the White House.
But the photographer had told outlets he had not seen any whipping. Instead, agents were using their long reins to control their horses.
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