Al Jazeera English released a painful video on Monday showing Border Patrol agents cracking apparent whips while riding horses to intimidate Haitian immigrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border. In the video, a chaotic scene is captured with multiple agents on horseback using horses and seemingly cracking whips to block and deter immigrants from crossing the border. . @CBP is whipping Haitian refugees seeking asylum.😳 This is both grotesquely inhumane & also illegal. Seeking asylum is a human right. It is accomplished by crossing the border and asking for asylum. Blocking asylum seekers violates American law. pic.twitter.com/vVJKkvUBRU — Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) September 20, 2021 White House press secretary Jen Psaki called the footage "horrific," Yahoo reports . "I have seen some of the footage. I don't have the full context. I can't imagine what context would make that appropriate, but I don't have additional details," she said during a Monday White House...
