Mayorkas Threatened With Impeachment Over Border Whipping Response
Amid an influx of Haitian migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border in September 2021, circulating images and footage that appeared to show agents using their horse reins against migrants drew fierce condemnation from Democrats and Biden administration officials. At a September 24 briefing alongside former White House press secretary Jen Psaki, Mayorkas called the photos “horrifying” and announced that an investigation had been opened into the situation. “We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism,” he said....