Emails revealed US Secretary of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas knew of the reality behind the border incident final yr.
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Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has to go. In a bombshell revelation, the Heritage Basis obtained emails displaying his personal employees informed him final yr that reviews of border brokers whipping migrants close to Del Rio, Texas, have been false — earlier than he went to the White Home and publicly smeared his personal brokers as racists anyway.
Mayorkas flat-out lied. Simply two hours after being knowledgeable the very photographer who captured the viral Sept. 19, 2021, photos of mounted Border Patrol officers confronting Haitian migrants stated no whipping occurred, he declared: “Our nation noticed horrifying photographs that don't mirror who we're. We all know that these photographs painfully conjured up the worst parts of our nation’s ongoing battle in opposition to systemic racism.”
His job as a frontrunner was to face up for the brokers below his authority and make plain that they have been being wrongly accused. As a substitute he waxed poetic about “systemic racism,” and days later, indignant, he promised Congress there could be an investigation: “It is going to be accomplished in days — not weeks.”
Ultimately, it took a yr, and it cleared the brokers of whipping, noting they’d solely used their reins to regulate their horses, although they nonetheless face potential punishment for different supposed violations.
How can we ask the courageous women and men who patrol our southern border to work for a person who's keen to color them as vile racists for his personal political acquire?
It’s unhealthy sufficient that border safety below Mayorkas is a shambolic clown automotive, with greater than 200,000 individuals crossing the southwest border in August alone — that’s simply unhealthy coverage. However to knowingly lie about his brokers, smearing them? That’s unforgivable.
As cynical and sinister because the secretary’s actions have been, there's something deeper right here than mere lying and political avarice. This defamation of harmless border brokers is one other instance of the havoc wrought by our society’s unhealthy and debilitating obsession with race and identification. The Brigham Younger College volleyball hoax, the NASCAR noose hoax, the Jussie Smollett hoax and the border-agents-whipping-migrants hoax: Again and again we’re outraged over pretend racism, details be damned. It has to cease.
Sadly for the women and men who serve below Mayorkas, he cares extra about scoring woke progressive factors and kowtowing to a Biden administration that lives to sow racial division than he does about his brokers or his nation. That is an alternate actuality during which the border is definitely safe and there's no disaster aside from menacing racists on horseback forged straight out of a Quentin Tarantino film.
This example can't stand. If Mayorkas received’t do the honorable factor and step down, President Joe Biden ought to fireplace him.
However that’s unlikely, as a result of we all know the president, his vp and his press secretary tripled down on Mayorkas’ lie. “To see individuals handled like they did, horses barely working over, individuals being strapped — it’s outrageous,” Biden stated that day in entrance of Mayorkas.
That gave Mayorkas a alternative: Carry water for his boss or arise for the individuals he represents and may take care of. Biden put him in that place.
We additionally know that a gleeful information media that ran with this pretend story will likely be in no rush to tell their audiences that it was a bag of nonsense.
Anybody who has been to a border city like Del Rio, Texas (one thing that neither Biden nor his border czar Kamala Harris has deigned to do) finds out one factor quick: The individuals in these tiny cities love their border brokers — it looks like half are associated to them. Mayorkas didn’t simply defame just some officers; he didn’t simply defame Border Patrol as a complete: He defamed complete communities he's sworn to guard.
Del Rio is a city of 35,000 souls. Final yr, 15,000 Haitians migrants amassed in an encampment at its border. That’s the equal of 4 million sitting on the sting of New York Metropolis. Accommodations’ electrical marquees despatched messages of due to the Border Patrol; indicators abounded providing regulation enforcement free plates of meals, pickup or supply. Rounds have been stood for brokers at watering holes. The gratitude was palpable. These are the individuals the person entrusted with our border’s security so casually slandered.
Alejandro Mayorkas is just not match to function homeland safety secretary. Frankly, I’m unsure he’s match to handle a Wendy’s. The American individuals want border safety, not race-baiting. By selecting the latter, Mayorkas has disgraced his workplace. He shouldn’t maintain it for even yet another day.
David Marcus is a Brooklyn-based columnist and creator of “Charade: The Covid Lies That Crushed a Nation.”
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