Images of the mounted agents driving migrants back across the Rio Grande prompted national condemnation.
Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas vowed a swift investigation into the treatment of Haitian migrants on the Texas border by agents on horseback, telling a House panel that the inquiry would be completed within days.
Mayorkas said the actions were "met with our nation's horror because they do not represent who we are as a country."and the agency's inspector general had been notified"It will be a sweeping investigation."New York Rep. John Katko, the committee's ranking Republican, described conditions at the southern border as "absolutely out of control."
Republicans on the committee repeatedly asked Mayorkas if he thought his department’s plan to control immigration was working, pointing to statistics that show increased encounters with migrants compared with previous years. “The images that I saw with regard to what was happening with Border Patrol employees whipping, I don’t care if it was your belt, your reins or what, but whipping Haitians is unconscionable, unacceptable and un-American," she said.
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