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Border Patrol Agent in WhipGate Hoax Awarded by DHS – HotAir

File this story in the you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up folder. 

Remember the five Border Patrol agents on horseback who patrolled the Rio Grande River bank in Texas? An adviser to former San Antonio mayor and HUD secretary started a lie on social media that the agents were whipping Haitian migrants as they waded through the Rio Grande toward the Texas shore. It was a hoax to smear Border Patrol agents but the Biden administration fell for it. The agents were taken off their assignment as the lie went viral. The photographer who took the photo used to justify the lie said immediately that the agents were not whipping the migrants. The reins on their horses were double reins used to control the horses, not whip migrants.

It would have been a laughable story from a hideously corrupt Democrat but it was horrific for the agents. They were eventually exonerated but they never received an…

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