Slamming Border Patrol: Joe’s Fury at Horse Images
President Biden on Friday said the images of US Border Patrol agents on horseback aggressively handling Haitian migrants were “horrible” and vowed there will be consequences for those involved (“Whoa, horses!” Sept. 24).
The president went on to say those people will pay. He needs to look no farther than his own mirror to see who is to blame. It was Biden who opened the floodgates at our southern border.
The Trump administration took the security at our southern border seriously. Biden reversed all of the Trump administration policies on immigration. He sent a clear message telling everyone that our southern border is open. It was the Biden administration that caused this crisis.
Team Biden owns it, and no amount of political spin will change the facts. Michael Hart
Kokomo, Ind.
Biden and the Democrats have neither empathy nor praise for our border agents caught in the crisis they created.
Instead, Rep. Maxine Waters arrives, launching her usual racist accusations at these workers, whose lives are at risk. She continues to attack Trump, complaining: “We are following the Trump policy.”
As usual, this administration takes no accountability and just looks to blame anyone else. Joyce Pulizzano
Barnegat, NJ
There are no words that can adequately express my utter disgust with our lying president, vice president and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for throwing Border Patrol agents under the bus for doing
their job in a situation this incompetent president and his team created.
They can try, but they are not distracting the American public from the s--tshow they have been hiding from. They are making a mockery of our borders and Americans’ safety. Joann Mirone
Old Greenwich, Conn.
First, Biden reverses the Trump southern-border policies, creating utter chaos at the border.
Immigrants are pouring into the United States daily. Many are carrying COVID, untreated and unvaccinated — and now Biden is blaming the overworked and under-staffed Border Patrol for inhumane treatment of these illegal immigrants.
People should remember that this whole crisis is a result of Biden’s failed policies and lack of leadership on his part, as well as that of do-nothing Vice President Kamala Harris. Alan Brooks
Brooklyn
Images of Border Patrol agents on horseback have created quite a stir.
Agents use horses to cover large stretches of backcountry and rough terrain. They doubtless
are trying to do their best under impossible conditions created by the very politicians who now berate them.
Perhaps the critics can provide some guidance: When an agent on horseback encounters a migrant, should he apprehend or redirect him, even if it means grabbing his shirt, or get off the horse and chase him on foot? Should he ignore him and ride on? Or give him the horse and walk back to the station? Lawrence Bodenstein
The Bronx
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, while confirming the horsepolicy change, called the images “horrible” and “horrific.”
Seems a bit strong for me. I’m more likely to save those descriptions for far more disturbing things. Say, when a missile is deployed and it wipes out a whole innocent family, including seven children.
I wonder how it feels to regurgitate lies for an administration that has failed us on every level? Psaki can help with that one. Gary Kaelin
Commack
Biden says Border Patrol agents on horseback will pay for the way they treated Haitians they were trying to stop from coming across border.
If Biden would go visit the border, he would see what a crisis he has caused.
So don’t say anything about these border agents who are trying to do their job. This is his problem, and he is doing nothing to fix it.
Jimmy Durda
The Bronx