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Border Patrol agents did not “whip” Haitian migrants in a viral incident that sparked outrage last September, but they did use “unnecessary force” while corralling the group, an internal report released Friday said.
The report, which totaled 511 pages, said an investigation found “no evidence” that agents on horseback struck migrants with reins while patrolling the border near Del Rio, Texas. That finding contradicts what many—including President Joe Biden—believed at the time of the incident, which sent field agents to administrative duty and sparked an internal investigation.
“It’s horrible, what you saw. To see people like they did, with horses, running them over, people being strapped, it’s outrageous,” Biden said last September. “Those people will pay.”