Democrats and much of the media are spreading outright lies about the Border Patrol agents on horseback who were trying to deter Haitian immigrants at the southern border, according to the photographer who captured the viral images at the center of this false narrative.
Photographer Paul Ratje told a local news outlet this week that certain angles of the photos he took are being “misconstrued” to make it seem like Border Patrol agents were using their horses’ reins as whips.
“Some of the Haitian men started running, trying to go around the horses,” he said. “I’ve never seen them whip anyone. He was swinging [the reins], but it can be misconstrued when you’re looking at the picture.”
Ratje has confirmed what has been obvious for several days now: Not once did an agent start to use his reins as a whip. Views of various angles of the interactions between agents and migrants prove that the alleged “whipping” never happened.
And the worst part is that everyone knows it didn’t happen. But because the imagery furthers a narrative that leftists love, one that suggests white law enforcement officers are bound to mistreat and abuse people of color and helps distract from the Biden administration’s failure to control its border crisis, Democrats have run with it at full speed.
The White House, which is in the middle of covering up its recent war crime in Afghanistan, condemned the agents’ horseback riding as “horrific” and suspended them pending an investigation. President Joe Biden publicly slammed the agents as poor representatives of the United States and vowed to make them “pay.” He even made sure federal agents won’t be able to use horses down at the southern border again. That’ll show ’em!
These agents have faced a rebuke far worse than any consequence imposed on the military officials who bungled our exit from Afghanistan, got U.S. soldiers killed, and massacred a family of Afghan civilians. And all of it has been based on a lie. This is what the Biden White House and wokeness are all about — the triumph of appearances over substance. Biden owes these agents a public apology, not punishment for something they did not even do.
