Psaki Announces Del Rio Border Patrol
Will No Longer Use Horses in Response
to False ‘Whip’ Narrative
National Review,
by
Brittany Bernstein
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
9/23/2021 2:02:20 PM
White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced Thursday that Border Patrol agents will no longer be permitted to use horses to guard the border in Del Rio, Texas, after “horrific” photos emerged of agents swinging long reins while interacting with Haitian migrants.
The announcement comes after the media caused a frenzy by falsely portraying the videos and photos as showing agents hitting the migrants with whips. It was later revealed that the agents were in fact wielding the long reins that make it easier to maintain control of their horses, according to Border Control chief Raul Ortiz.
An unnamed Border Patrol agent told Townhall’s Julio Rosas that mounted agents
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 9/23/2021 2:09:37 PM (No. 924086)
The fools and savages won another round.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chance_232 9/23/2021 2:11:03 PM (No. 924090)
Soooooooo...... the racist immigrant whipping Biden regime is scrapping green horses for coal powered electric vehicles....???
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 9/23/2021 2:12:45 PM (No. 924092)
Stating border security was using whips is a flat out, blatant lie by the Left.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mc squared 9/23/2021 2:13:45 PM (No. 924094)
Next, no trucks and no officers. Looks like patriots will have to escalate to Plan B.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
hershey 9/23/2021 2:15:31 PM (No. 924096)
Will this insanity never end????
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Time to start using guns then.
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Are they going to issue cattle prods then?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Quigley 9/23/2021 2:24:15 PM (No. 924101)
Yes the dims don’t want to slow the importing of slaves. They will be disappeared somewhere to their assigned tasks. You’ll not see any news stories about their new lives.
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The beginning of the end for mounted patrols nationwide.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Connor 9/23/2021 2:28:19 PM (No. 924105)
I am sure most will disagree but I didn't like the scene either. Reminded me of Planet of the Apes.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 9/23/2021 2:32:52 PM (No. 924108)
We all know that horses are part of the white male patriarchy! They are probably homophobes too!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
snapper451 9/23/2021 2:40:32 PM (No. 924112)
Machine guns then?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 9/23/2021 2:40:36 PM (No. 924113)
This big deal about horses, whips, and chains is a smokescreen. Let's talk about deportations (happening or not) and embedding Haitians in the Florida communities. Enough with the squirrels.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
felixcat 9/23/2021 2:40:53 PM (No. 924114)
Re #10 - Grow Up. Almost every large metropolitan police force in this country has a mounted patrol to deal with large crowds, etc - just as those CBP Officers doing. BTW - the US Park Police has a mounted patrol and they use those horses whenever there is a large gathering on The Mall, well, they use to.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Namma 9/23/2021 2:43:02 PM (No. 924116)
I agree. Instead of whips. Use guns.
Pretty stupid bunch in Washington. Those are the horses reigns. Only cowboys that use whips are in rodeos
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
justavoter 9/23/2021 3:02:05 PM (No. 924126)
A testament to the ignorance of the American public and the use of horses for crowd control. I watched the guy on the horse interacting with the crowd and he did exactly what you are supposed to do. His job was first to keep control of his horse and keep the horse from charging the wrong way and causing injury. Horses work off of pressure. The twirling rein was a message to the horse (horses have tremendous periphery vision ) and the as the rider was twirling on one side the horse was apt to move toward the crowd as the crowd was causing pressure on the horse to move away from them. The twirling rein was there as an equalizer the maintain pressure on the crowd. The job of the guy on the horse was to keep enough pressure on the horse (either through leg pressure on the horses side or with the twirling reins) to maintain crowd control. The guy on the horse did a fantastic job.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Nimby 9/23/2021 3:07:37 PM (No. 924129)
What's next- No agents ? This is just a ploy to stop deportations
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Pearson365 9/23/2021 3:07:55 PM (No. 924130)
Then why not drones firing Hellfire missiles? Neither Democrats nor their mouthpieces in the media expressed any outrage Biden ordered killing of 7 Afghan children and 3 adults. Don’t recall Jen Psucki saying that this destruction of a family was “horrific” or that USAF drone operators were suspended. One has to assume that the killing of innocent civilians with drones is okay was long as whips and horses aren’t used.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/23/2021 3:11:46 PM (No. 924131)
Lets take away yet another tool of border enforcement! Politicians and liberal media looking for face time and clearly know better are spewing their race baiting rhetoric regarding the horses and whips. Talk about misinformation and lies! Facebook, You-Tube, and Instagram should ban most news outlets and liberal politicians for the lies they have spread regarding the horse and whip story. All they are doing is spreading is hate and fear which will lead to racial unrest.
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Land mines. Post signs. Dare cross. Maybe there's a mine. Maybe there isnt.
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...did anyone notice the horses? They were soaked in sweat. Did the job well. Now what?
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
skacmar 9/23/2021 3:15:57 PM (No. 924135)
Paski keeps claiming that they horses and "whips" are the result of a broken system. Yes they are. A system that was working until January 20, 2021 when Biden took over and the border was thrown wide open. That was the day that the system broke and the Biden administration has been chipping away at the rest of the system, finishing it off, since then. It is not just broken, it no longer exists!
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
DVC 9/23/2021 3:25:07 PM (No. 924137)
The horses were effective. So, they had to LIE about it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/23/2021 3:25:38 PM (No. 924138)
Who gave the order for the Horse Patrol? Hold that person responsible, not the agents on the horses. The agents were doing their job as they are trained. Everything about the Biden Administration is in complete Fubar. Surrender Joe is responsible for the Fubar.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
His_Highness 9/23/2021 3:36:05 PM (No. 924152)
The last time they used whips is when Dems were slave owners.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
DVC 9/23/2021 3:36:40 PM (No. 924153)
#24, ".....hold that person responsible"?????
You mean give him a promotion and raise for doing a wonderful job?
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
lftrn97 9/23/2021 3:36:59 PM (No. 924154)
Sounds like the horses were effective and we can't have that.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
udanja99 9/23/2021 3:37:46 PM (No. 924155)
Perhaps someone can send a few episodes of “Rawhide” to the WH and congress so that they understand how reins are used in western style riding.
#14 is correct. We donated a horse to the DC metro police force for use in crowd control and for patrolling the streets of the city.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 9/23/2021 3:45:06 PM (No. 924156)
Ship the Haitians to China. They have lots of empty housing.
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Just use the push bars on your trucks, and run them down.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
vwlarry 9/23/2021 4:12:54 PM (No. 924177)
How much more STUPIDITY are Americans supposed to tolerate before an entire nation goes postal???
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 9/23/2021 4:21:32 PM (No. 924184)
DHS will soon change the Border Patrol uniforms from green to pink to soothe the illegals' nerves.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
bighambone 9/23/2021 4:21:49 PM (No. 924186)
Remember it is the Biden crew and the leftist and socialist Democrats who put the Border Patrol in the current overrun situation. The entire US Border Patrol along the borderline from Texas through California should simply go home and self quarantine for 14 days and let Biden and his cohorts figure out how to process the unlimited numbers of illegal aliens that he and the leftist and socialist Democrats invited to make unlawful entries to the USA. If the media were to look closely at the Border Patrol Agents who were riding the cutting horses, chances are great that they would find that there were no “White Supremacists” on the horses, but just a group of mostly Texas raised Mexican-American law enforcement officers who grew up along or near the borderline, who know the scams used by the human traffickers to get as many illegal aliens, in return for big payments, into the USA. Obviously Biden and the leftist and socialist Democrats do not want the Border Patrol to be able to do their jobs.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
mathman 9/23/2021 4:22:46 PM (No. 924188)
Horses have been used for crowd control since horses were first domesticated, whenever that was. A man on a horse is much more visible. The horse, massing 600 to 800 pounds, has a presence a person does not. A controlled horse controls a mob just like a ranch horse controls a herd of cattle.
It was commenters like Mad Max who accused the border patrol of using whips on the Haitians. That was no whip. I used to play with whips when I was a kid. Those were reins, and have long been used to help control the horse. The ends of the reins provide a means for a quick transfer of information to the horse.
Okay. You don't want horses. What you want are riots. Got it. Riots and mobs. Evening news, for sure.
Open borders. Let them ALL in. No vaccination. No testing. Just 3 hots and a cot for life.
INSANITY. But in the case of Mad Max and AOC, I am repeating myself.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
4Justice 9/23/2021 5:30:37 PM (No. 924247)
They will no longer do anything at the border because of "optics"
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
SALady 9/23/2021 6:36:34 PM (No. 924322)
Well, motorcycles and ATV's would be much faster and more powerful to round up the illegal aliens and force them back over the border!!!
I'm sure that isn't what this brain dead woman or her brain dead boss meant, but it works for me!!!
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 9/23/2021 6:42:54 PM (No. 924327)
They're coming for law enforcement - defund the police, catch and release, no bail and, now, friggin horses - and the military - Milley, ask and tell, required Covid vaccines, rules of engagement.
It's a 2 pronged attack on anyone who enforces our laws - local, state, federal and international.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
Pepperpot59 9/23/2021 6:49:36 PM (No. 924336)
Why does it seem like the Press ranks are filled with urbanized idiots with no common sense no understanding of anything--but City living?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Italiano 9/23/2021 6:53:45 PM (No. 924344)
Use Humvees and .50 cals.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
msavalla 9/23/2021 6:55:36 PM (No. 924346)
Communism in action. Quick fix, Have the Texas Law Enforcement on horses, the communist Biden's don't have a say in their policies.
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OK...... replace the horses with live ammunition.
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Penney 9/23/2021 7:04:43 PM (No. 924359)
This outrageous idiotic policy to remove the BP Horse Patrol where it is most needed again displays Biden's total inability as President! This entire unedited Administration doesn't know what end is up as it rushes to disable this country! One thing is clear, -crooks hate all law enforcement and the Biden Administration is trying to remove all law enforcement while enabling the lawless to take leadership positions in Government that they do NOT deserve! They do not research their dictates nor their ramifications, but instead only care about how it looks. Plugs has always been an empty suit with an image complex. Government needs to stop looking for hollyweird's factually challenged image makers to direct Government and its lapdog dem media!
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/23/2021 7:09:33 PM (No. 924369)
Ok, we give in, we'll ride PIGS, they love to clean up Schifft!
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
RedWhiteBlue 9/23/2021 7:54:26 PM (No. 924412)
Can we get elephants or jackasses and see who wins?
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Rubinski 9/23/2021 8:14:37 PM (No. 924433)
I heard they were going to give them pedal scooters to replace the horses. Less intimidating, you know.
/s
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rochow 9/23/2021 8:37:40 PM (No. 924456)
Why don't they send this @itch and the Kamel border czar down there to handle the crisis? Take the first vegetable along who will just totter around and spread some word salad.... the whole thing will be settled within minutes!
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Reply 47 - Posted by:
chumley 9/23/2021 8:40:02 PM (No. 924460)
Ok, no horses. How about bulldozers?
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