{"id":500406,"date":"2022-10-13T03:49:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayorkas-smeared-border-agents-despite-knowing-they-hadnt-whipped-migrants\/"},"modified":"2022-10-13T03:49:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T00:49:36","slug":"mayorkas-smeared-border-agents-despite-knowing-they-hadnt-whipped-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayorkas-smeared-border-agents-despite-knowing-they-hadnt-whipped-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayorkas smeared border agents despite knowing they hadn\u2019t whipped migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2599937cc41\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2599937cc41\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayorkas-smeared-border-agents-despite-knowing-they-hadnt-whipped-migrants\/#%E2%80%9CMayorkas_smeared_border_agents_despite_knowing_they_hadnt_whipped_migrants%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Mayorkas smeared border agents despite knowing they hadn\u2019t whipped migrants&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMayorkas_smeared_border_agents_despite_knowing_they_hadnt_whipped_migrants%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Mayorkas smeared border agents despite knowing they hadn\u2019t whipped migrants&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has to go. In a bombshell revelation, the Heritage Foundation obtained emails showing his own staff told him last year that reports of border agents whipping migrants near Del Rio, Texas, were false \u2014 <em>before<\/em> he went to the White House and publicly smeared his own agents as racists anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Mayorkas flat-out lied. Just two hours after being informed the very photographer who captured the viral Sept. 19, 2021, pictures of mounted Border Patrol officers confronting Haitian migrants said no whipping occurred, he declared: \u201cOur nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are. We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation\u2019s ongoing battle against systemic racism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His job as a leader was to stand up for the agents under his authority and make plain that they were being wrongly accused. Instead he waxed poetic about \u201csystemic racism,\u201d and days later, indignant, he promised Congress there would be an investigation: \u201cIt will be completed in days \u2014 not weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it took a year, and it cleared the agents of whipping, noting they\u2019d only used their reins to control their horses, though they still face potential punishment for other supposed violations.<\/p>\n<p>How can we ask the brave men and women who patrol our southern border to work for a man who is willing to paint them as vile racists for his own political gain? <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"786\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?w=786\" alt=\"Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas\" class=\"wp-image-24232542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1572 1572w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1178 1179w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=786 786w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=393 393w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/mayorkas-horse-whipping-migrants-emails-01.jpeg.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 786px) 100vw, 786px\"\/><figcaption>The email focuses on internal deliberations surrounding the controversy in Del Rio, Texas.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> \/ Bill Melugin<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AP21306741298617.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acu\u00f1a, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-24232975\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AP21306741298617.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AP21306741298617.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AP21306741298617.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/AP21306741298617.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mounted US Border Patrol agents attempt to contain migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acu\u00f1a, Mexico, into Del Rio, Texas, Sept. 19, 2021. It\u2019s now known the agents did not whip the migrants.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It\u2019s bad enough that border security under Mayorkas is a shambolic clown car, with more than 200,000 people crossing the southwest border in August alone \u2014 that\u2019s just bad policy. But to knowingly lie about his agents, smearing them? That\u2019s unforgivable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As cynical and sinister as the secretary\u2019s actions were, there is something deeper here than mere mendacity and political avarice. This defamation of innocent border agents is another example of the havoc wrought by our society\u2019s unhealthy and debilitating obsession with race and identity. The Brigham Young University volleyball hoax, the NASCAR noose hoax, the Jussie Smollett hoax and the border-agents-whipping-migrants hoax: Time and again we\u2019re outraged over fake racism, facts be damned. It has to stop.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for the men and women who serve under Mayorkas, he cares more about scoring woke progressive points and kowtowing to a Biden administration that lives to sow racial division than he does about his agents or his country. This is an alternate reality in which the border is actually secure and there is no crisis except for menacing racists on horseback cast straight out of a Quentin Tarantino movie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/PCN_President_Bide_726952372.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas \" class=\"wp-image-24232555\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/PCN_President_Bide_726952372.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/PCN_President_Bide_726952372.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/PCN_President_Bide_726952372.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Mayorkas said an investigation would take place after the images were released.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Bonnie Cash \u2013 Pool via CNP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This situation cannot stand. If Mayorkas won\u2019t do the honorable thing and step down, President Joe Biden should fire him. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>But that\u2019s unlikely, because we know the president, his vice president and his press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>led down on Mayorkas\u2019 lie. \u201cTo see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being str<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed \u2014 it\u2019s outrageous,\u201d Biden said that day in front of Mayorkas.<\/p>\n<p>That gave Mayorkas a choice: Carry water for his boss or stand up for the people he represents and should care for. Biden put him in that position.<\/p>\n<p>We also know that a gleeful news <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a> that ran with this fake story will be in no rush to inform their audiences that it was a bag of nonsense.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has been to a border town like Del Rio, Texas (something that neither Biden nor his border czar Kamala Harris has deigned to do) finds out one thing fast: The people in these tiny towns love their border agents \u2014 it seems like half are related to them. Mayorkas didn\u2019t just defame just a few officers; he didn\u2019t just defame Border Patrol as a whole: He defamed entire communities he is sworn to protect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Del Rio is a town of 35,000 souls. Last year, 15,000 Haitians migrants amassed in an encampment at its border. That\u2019s the equivalent of 4 million sitting on the edge of New York City. Hotels\u2019 electric marquees sent messages of thanks to the Border Patrol; signs abounded offering law enforcement free plates of food, pickup or delivery. Rounds were stood for agents at watering holes. The gratitude was palpable. These are the people the man entrusted with our border\u2019s safety so casually slandered.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/13429790e.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"United States Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas\" class=\"wp-image-24232587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/13429790e.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/13429790e.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/10\/13429790e.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The border has continued to be flooded under Mayorkas\u2019 watch.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Shutterstock<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Alejandro Mayorkas is not fit to serve as homeland security secretary. Frankly, I\u2019m not sure he\u2019s fit to manage a Wendy\u2019s. The American people need border security, not race-baiting. By choosing the latter, Mayorkas has disgraced his office. He shouldn\u2019t hold it for even one more day.<\/p>\n<p><em>David Marcus is a Brooklyn-based columnist and author of \u201cCharade: The Covid Lies That Crushed a Nation.\u201d<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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