<p>Reporter April Ryan doubled down on debunked claims that Customs and Border Patrol agents &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/email-shows-sec-mayorkas-was-alerted-migrants-were-not-whipped-by-border-patrol" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whipped</a>&#8221; Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border — even after Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas informed her that no such whipping had occurred.</p>
<p>Ryan, the White House correspondent for The Grio, responded to an exchange that took place Thursday during a press conference with the Homeland Security chief — during which he addressed the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-major-reversal-biden-resurrects-trump-border-policy-ahead-of-title-42-repeal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expiring Title 42</a> immigration restrictions and what the border policy would look like going forward.</p>
<p>&#8220;Maybe its just me but!&#8221; Ryan tweeted, sharing a photo of two migrants, one of whom appeared to be attempting to escape as a mounted Border Patrol Agent grabbed his shirt. The split rein that the agent would normally use to control the horse could also be seen hanging freely from the horse&#8217;s bridle.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Maybe its just me but! <a href="https://t.co/mfgkxc5i3f">pic.twitter.com/mfgkxc5i3f</a></p>
<p>&mdash; AprilDRyan (@AprilDRyan) <a href="https://twitter.com/AprilDRyan/status/1656718061716623361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>When that now-famous photo first surfaced, many mistook the free rein for a whip and alleged that agents had &#8220;whipped&#8221; migrants at the border in order to prevent them from escaping into the interior of the United States.</p>
<p>Even the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/photographer-who-took-horseback-border-patrol-photos-ive-never-seen-them-whip-anyone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">photographer</a> who captured the image stated publicly that he had never seen agents whip anyone, but still the narrative persisted and President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dhs-investigation-debunks-claim-that-border-agents-whipped-migrants-but-jen-psaki-president-biden-still-wont-apologize" target="_blank" rel="noopener">publicly criticized</a> the agents — and he even called for a federal investigation into their behavior. That investigation determined that the Border Patrol agents had simply done their jobs and that no one had been whipped.</p>
<p>Despite the fact that the investigation was concluded over a year earlier, Ryan brought it up during Thursday&#8217;s press conference.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Mayorkas on whip-gate: &quot;The investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/afcCOXopEt">pic.twitter.com/afcCOXopEt</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href="https://twitter.com/townhallcom/status/1656713946013876240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The southern border is not just Mexicans,&#8221; Ryan began, adding, &#8220;It is Haitians, it&#8217;s Africans, as we&#8217;ve seen particularly with that issue with the Haitians being whipped with the reins, or the horses, but what is there —&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well let me just correct you right there,&#8221; Mayorkas interrupted. &#8220;Because actually the investigation concluded that the whipping did not occur.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ryan was not deterred, however, claiming that she &#8220;saw it differently&#8221; and insisting that &#8220;they were whipped with something from the horse.&#8221;</p>
<p>She went on to suggest that either the photos or videos that circulated after the alleged whipping incident might have been somehow &#8220;fixed,&#8221; repeating once more that what she had seen &#8220;was totally different.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m going to leave you as corrected,&#8221; Mayorkas replied before moving on to the next question.</p>

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