(Washington) US Secretary of Defense Alejandro Myorgas on Wednesday said photos of border police members pushing Haitians on horseback across the US-Mexico border do not reflect the identity of the United States or the United States.
In a snapshot taken by a photographer holding a man’s T – shirt on horseback on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande, the natural border between the two countries, near Del Rio, Texas.
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September 19, 2021 Dels Rio, near Del Rio A border guard catches a man’s T-shirt on horseback on the American side of the Rio Grande, the natural border between the two countries.
In another, he forced himself to return to Mexico, in a threatening pose, twisting his control and chasing a group.
These images “do not reflect who we are as a country or what the U.S. border police are,” Mr. Majorcos promised.
He recalled being ordered to start an investigation and promised quick results, “within days and weeks”.
The day before, he had announced on Twitter that the agents identified in the photos had been assigned to administrative tasks.
These films, which have been around the world, have caused a stir in the United States, even with close associates of President Joe Biden.
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Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Myorgas ordered an investigation and promised a speedy “within days, not weeks”.
“These pictures make you nauseous,” said Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate.
Vice President Kamala Harris called them “cruel” and said “humans should never be treated like this”.
Infiltration
To some, these immigrants are the equivalent of cattle or reminiscent of the treatment African Americans experienced by mounted police, prison guards, or slave owners.
The U.S. government is struggling to cope with the sudden and massive influx of thousands of immigrants, including several Haitians, who had gathered for days under a bridge in Del Rio’s small border town of Del Rio.
As the small Caribbean country plunges into political, security and humanitarian crisis, authorities are beginning to repatriate them by air.
“We have a plan to respond to this influx of immigrants,” he said. Majorcos promised. “We use it, it takes time, we start to see results.”
Thousands of people crossed the Rio Grande on Wednesday to seek asylum in the United States.
After the devastating earthquake of 2010 that devastated the Caribbean, many Haitians traveled to the United States from the countries where they settled in South America.
A Colombian official said Wednesday that 19,000 immigrants, mostly Haitians, were trying to cross the country’s north, on the Panama border, dangerous to the United States.
Discussions are also underway with Latin American countries such as Chile or Brazil, “to see if they will accept the return of Haitians from these countries,” said Alejandro Myorgas, who described the situation as “complicated”.
Despite the US government telling exit candidates that the borders have not been opened, Republican Senate President Mitch McConnell on Wednesday accused the Biden administration and Democrats of encouraging “left-wing” immigrants and “tolerating a major border security crisis.”
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