<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to apologize — either on her own or on behalf of President Joe Biden — for claiming that U.S. Border Patrol Agents on horseback had &#8220;whipped&#8221; migrants in order to drive them back.</p>
<p>Fox News White House Correspondent Peter Doocy posed the question, beginning by noting that the Department of Homeland Security had <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/npr-debunked-claim-msnbc-nyt-border-patrol-whipping-haitian-migrants">debunked</a> the claim.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doocy: &quot;We&#39;ve been told that the mounted Border Patrol officers [Biden] accused of whipping migrants had been notified they will not face criminal charges. So when is [he] going to apologize to them? </p>
<p>Psaki says she doesn&#39;t have an &quot;update on that.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/yKsEw99evn">pic.twitter.com/yKsEw99evn</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1516155207780126725?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;One additional question about something that happened a few months ago down at the border,&#8221; Doocy began. &#8220;We&#8217;ve been told that the mounted Border Patrol officers the president accused of &#8216;whipping migrants&#8217; have been notified they will not face criminal charges. So when is the president going to apologize to them?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a process and an investigation that has gone through the Department of Homeland Security,&#8221; Psaki replied, adding, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any update on that.&#8221;</p>
<p>Doocy pressed again, noting that what President Biden had accused the Border Patrol agents of doing was a criminal offense — and the fact that they were not going to be charged suggested that the investigation had cleared them of any wrongful action.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Doocy: Biden &quot;said that they were whipping people, which would be a criminal offense and they&#39;ve been told they&#39;re not going to be criminally charged.&quot; </p>
<p>Psaki: &quot;And there was an investigation into that, and I&#39;ll let [DHS] announce any conclusion of that investigation.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/s3BKzm2xH3">pic.twitter.com/s3BKzm2xH3</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1516155609720176645?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 18, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;The president said that they were whipping people, which would be a criminal offense and they&#8217;ve been told they&#8217;re not going to be criminally charged, so —&#8221; Doocy tried again.</p>
<p>&#8220;And there was an investigation into that, and I&#8217;ll let the Department of Homeland Security announce any conclusion of that investigation&#8221; Psaki interrupted.</p>
<p>A viral photo started the whole controversy — but even Paul Ratje, the photographer who took the photo in question, said that he had never witnessed Customs and Border Patrol agents whipping anyone.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Photographer Who Took Horseback Border Patrol Photos: ‘I’ve Never Seen Them Whip Anyone’ <a href="https://t.co/PdmBR4tMZY">https://t.co/PdmBR4tMZY</a> <a href="https://t.co/HOHsxlnCnT">pic.twitter.com/HOHsxlnCnT</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1441426461768884229?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>Despite his comments – and the hundreds who flooded social media to explain that the agents were riding with split reins and were not whipping anyone — many in the media and in the Biden administration were quick to vilify the agents and ask questions later.</p>
<p>DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/mayorkas-says-border-agents-caught-whipping-haitian-migrants-have-shifted-to-desk-duty/">called the images</a> &#8220;horrifying&#8221; and claimed that they &#8220;conjured up the worst elements of our nation&#8217;s ongoing battle against systemic racism.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Sec. Mayorkas says &quot;we saw horrifying images&quot; of Border Patrol horse patrol. He says the images &quot;conjured up the worst elements of our nation&#39;s ongoing battle against systemic racism.&quot;</p>
<p>&mdash; Philip Melanchthon Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) <a href="https://twitter.com/PhilipWegmann/status/1441471994558550017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 24, 2021</a></p></blockquote>
<p>President Biden responded to the situation with <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/watch-reporters-grill-psaki-about-biden-promising-border-patrol-agents-in-photos-will-pay/">condemnation</a> as well, saying, &#8220;I take responsibility. It was horrible to see, to see people treated like they did, with horses nearly running them over. People being strapped. It&#8217;s outrageous &#8230; I promise you those people will pay. They will be investigated. There will be consequences.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the president wanted to make clear to people who watched those photos, who had understandably emotional responses, that that’s not acceptable to him, even while the investigation is being — is being — is happening and moving forward,&#8221; Psaki added at the time. &#8220;That will determine what the consequences will look like.&#8221;</p>

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