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WASHINGTON (AP) — Border Patrol agents on horseback engaged in “unnecessary use of force” against non-threatening Haitian immigrants but didn’t whip any with their reins, according to a federal investigation of chaotic scenes along the Texas-Mexico border last fall.
Video of that confrontation sparked widespread condemnation. In a 511-page report released Friday, Customs and Border Protection blamed a “lack of command control and communication” for mounted agents using their horses to forcibly block and move migrants at the Rio Grande during an influx of Haitians arriving last September to the U.S. border outside Del Rio, Texas.
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