The head of CBP says a report on the probe into the conduct of Border Patrol agents accused of whipping Haitian migrants will come out in the next several weeks.
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Magnus indicated that the question was off-limits for the topic of the call, but gave a short answer anyway. "I will merely indicate that the report that you're speaking about, we anticipate to release within the next several weeks. We are following the administrative processes that protect the due process rights of the involved employees," he said."But we're going to let it go at that."
Mounted U.S. Border Patrol agents watch Haitian immigrants on the bank of the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas on September 20, 2021, as seen from Ciudad Acuna, Mexico.Magnus, who took his position earlier this year, has not otherwise commented on the investigation or on the conduct of the agents – who were dispatched to the Del Rio River amid the Haitian migrant crisis in September last year.
Images circulated on Twitter of the agents trying to block migrants from entering the U.S., and in one case grabbing a migrants’ shirt. The controversy escalated as some media outlets and Democratic lawmakers misidentified the agents’ split reins, which they use and twirl to control and direct the horse -- and falsely claimed the agents were using"whips" on the migrants.
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