PICTURES: US BORDER PATROL AGENTS ABUSING HAITIAN MIGRANTS

 U.S. Border patrol agents abuse Haitian migrants [Photos

A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment. 

Another border patrol agent grabs Haitian migrant

United States Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Monday that the authorities would investigate reports that Haitian migrants in Texas may have been abused by border patrol officers on horseback.

Mayorkas said that the mounted officers were trying to manage the flow of hundreds of migrants crossing the Rio Grande river from Mexico near Del Rio, Texas.

Pictures by AFP photographer Paul Ratje and video footage which spread quickly over social media appeared to show riders swinging their long reins to threaten migrants and push them back toward the river.

United States Border Patrol agents on horseback try to stop Haitian migrants at the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021.. AFP