Gov. Abbott offers border agents accused of whipping migrants jobs in Texas if disciplined

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday that if any U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers face “opposed motion” over claims that they “whipped” Haitian migrants making an attempt to illegally enter the USA, he would provide them jobs.

Brokers on horseback had been accused of whipping migrants in September, after Democratic lawmakers who noticed pictures of the encounters misidentified the brokers’ break up reins and claimed that the brokers had been whipping individuals. Six months after the “whipping” narrative was debunked, the matter stays below investigation.

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“If any opposed motion is taken towards these border patrol brokers who had been doing their job to safe the border then Texas will provide them a job,” Abbott tweeted, including that they “must be praised not persecuted.”

The controversy started amid the Haitian migrant disaster in Del Rio, the place greater than 10,000 migrants had been gathered beneath the realm’s Worldwide Bridge. Because the state of affairs worsened, brokers had been despatched out on horseback.

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Brandon Judd, president of the Nationwide Border Patrol Council, informed Fox Information Digital in an interview that the state of affairs on the bottom in Del Rio was a “powder keg” as migrants had simply found that they had been in reality more likely to be eliminated slightly than allowed into the U.S.

“These brokers had been particularly despatched to that location to cease extra individuals from crossing, that was what they had been despatched there to do,” Judd stated. “This was below the orders of their administration which in fact is below the management of Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas.”

A photographer who took the pictures in query stated that “no one noticed a Border Patrol agent whipping,” and Mayorkas initially backed the brokers alongside Border Patrol Chief Raul Ortiz. 

Nonetheless, President Biden put strain on the besieged brokers by repeating the false claims of whipping and previewed what he hoped can be the end result of the investigation.

“To see individuals handled like they did, horses barely working over, individuals being strapped – it is outrageous,” Biden stated, making a whipping movement together with his hand. 

“I promise you, these individuals can pay,” he stated, referring to frontline Border Patrol brokers. “There will probably be an investigation underway now and there will probably be penalties. There will probably be penalties.”

Fox Information’ Adam Shaw contributed to this report.