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You've got mail: Mayorkas knew border agents did not whip migrants before repeating false claims, emails show

“To see people treated like they did, horses barely running over, people being strapped — it’s outrageous,” Biden told reporters that day.

“Our nation saw horrifying images that do not reflect who we are. We know that those images painfully conjured up the worst elements of our nation’s ongoing battle against systemic racism,” Mayorkas said during the newser.

Biden and other administration officials had repeated immigration activists’ claims that the cowboy hat-clad agents were whipping the migrants, as the pictures originally appeared to show. GOP lawmakers accused the Democratic administration of trying to throw the agents under the bus to take attention away from the crisis at the overflowing makeshift migrant camp at Del Rio.

The three agents had in fact been using cord split reins to control their horses, and no migrants were harmed in the Sept. 19 fracas, a Customs and Border Protection internal investigation revealed this summer.

The email from Espinosa to Mayorkas was reportedly obtained by the Heritage Foundation through a Freedom of Information Act request in March. When the DHS did not comply, the conservative think tank successfully sued the agency to obtain the documents, according to Fox News.

“It clearly shows [federal officials] are willing to lie to the American people for their self interests,” National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd reacted.

All the worst suspicions about the government that I harbored as a young man in 1970 have proved to be grossly naive.