The images had gone around the world: last year, near Del Rio, on the border between Texas and Mexico, American agents of the border police had chased, on horseback, Haitian migrants trying to enter the United States. An official investigation report of more than 500 pages was finally made public on Friday July 8.
At least four officers will face unspecified disciplinary action. Concretely, what this report says is that these agents acted in a ” non-professional “.
One of the police officers is notably singled out for comments “ insulting », « offensive concerning the Haitian origin of these migrants, and for a maneuver of his horse, described as dangerous, near a child.
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Faced with the emotion aroused at the time in the United States and around the world, President Joe Biden had promised consequences for the police officers involved. Since then, the investigation has been criticized for its slowness. She could not prove that the border guards had hit migrants with their reins and is content to point out the lack of training and coordination of these mounted units deployed at the border.
These were suspended in Del Rio, but are in use elsewhere in Texas. These conclusions are published when the Republican governor of this state, Greg Abbott, authorized Thursday, July 7 by decree the police to escort to the border the migrants who would have crossed it illegally. A power normally reserved for the American federal state.
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