One of the Border Patrol agents falsely accused of whipping migrants at the border in Texas and chastized by president Biden himself, has now been given an award by the same government.
The agent — whose name has been withheld since the September 2021 incident to protect his identity — received a Border Patrol Achievement award from the agency Thursday morning, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) source told The Post.
The agent was recognized for his intelligence work on human smuggling cases, they added.
The agent was one of the five photographed on horseback during the incident, where they were accused of whipping Haitian migrants at the riverbank in Del Rio, Texas, while trying to control members of a crowd of roughly 14,000 people crossing into the US illegally. A Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop Haitian migrants from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande […]
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