Say you’re sorry, Joe

Tex AG on ‘whip’ flub

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is demanding the Biden administration apologize for falsely accusing four mounted Border Patrol agents of whipping Haitian migrants at the southern border with Mexico last year.

“There’s no doubt this was political,” Paxton told Fox News on Friday, joining other Republicans in demanding a mea culpa from the president.

“And it’s really unfortunate that these border agents who’ve given their lives to securing our border and defending Americans [sic]. And here they are being punished; they should be rewarded,” he added.

A 511-page report released by the US Customs and Border Protection Office of Personal Responsibility this week found that the whipping allegations were false and cleared the agents.

The inquiry was sparked after images emerged of agents on horseback in Del Rio, Texas, holding back Haitian migrants in September, and President Biden accused them of wrongdoing.

“To see people treated like they did . . . people being strapped, it’s outrageous,” the president said at the time before vowing: “I promise you, those people will pay.”

Meanwhile, it emerged that the federal government expects a record surge of up to 161,000 unaccompanied minors to flood the USMexico border this year, according to a leaked report.

“DHS projections call for approximately 148,000 and 161,000 [unaccompanied children] referrals to [Health and Human Services Office of Refugee Resettlement] this year,” according to an Interior Department projection obtained by the Washington Examiner.

The report, dated January 2022, warned of “monthly projections exceeding those seen in FY 2021” — when a record-shattering 147,000 migrant children entered the US alone, without a parent or family member.

US Customs and Border Patrol agents picked up more than 101,000 unaccompanied minors between October 2021 and May of this year, according to agency tallies — with four months still to go in the fiscal year ending September 30.

The month-by-month totals in six out of those eight months have far exceeded the record numbers seen in the previous year.